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Meaning of "egestion" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EGESTION

egestion  [ɪˈdʒɛstʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EGESTION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Egestion is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EGESTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Defecation

Defecation is the final act of digestion, by which organisms eliminate solid, semisolid, and/or liquid waste material from the digestive tract via the anus. Humans expel feces with a frequency varying from a few times daily to a few times weekly. Waves of muscular contraction in the walls of the colon move fecal matter through the digestive tract towards the rectum. Undigested food may also be expelled this way, in a process called egestion.

Definition of egestion in the English dictionary

The definition of egestion in the dictionary is the act or process of egesting.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EGESTION


antichristian
ˌæntɪˈkrɪstʃən
autosuggestion
ˌɔːtəʊsəˈdʒɛstʃən
Christian
ˈkrɪstʃən
combustion
kəmˈbʌstʃən
congestion
kənˈdʒɛstʃən
contragestion
ˌkɒntrəˈdʒɛstʃən
counterquestion
ˈkaʊntəˌkwɛstʃən
decongestion
ˌdiːkənˈdʒɛstʃən
digestion
dɪˈdʒɛstʃən
disgestion
dɪsˈdʒɛstʃən
exhaustion
ɪɡˈzɔːstʃən
indigestion
ˌɪndɪˈdʒɛstʃən
ingestion
ɪnˈdʒɛstʃən
mixtion
ˈmɪkstʃən
moxibustion
ˌmɒksɪˈbʌstʃən
predigestion
ˌpriːdaɪˈdʒɛstʃən
question
ˈkwɛstʃən
redigestion
ˌriːdaɪˈdʒɛstʃən
suggestion
səˈdʒɛstʃən
unchristian
ʌnˈkrɪstʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EGESTION

egality
egally
egarement
Egas Moniz
Egbert
egence
Eger
Egeria
egest
egesta
egestive
egg
egg and anchor
egg and dart
egg and tongue
egg cell
egg cup
egg custard
egg flip
egg roll

WORDS THAT END LIKE EGESTION

accreditation
bastion
beg the question
beyond (all) question
call in question
Camp Bastion
direct question
essay question
good question
heat exhaustion
heat of combustion
in question
loaded question
open question
out of the question
pop the question
previous question
put the question
rhetorical question
trick question
yes/no question

Synonyms and antonyms of egestion in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «egestion» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EGESTION

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The translations of egestion from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «egestion» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

egestion
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

egestion
570 millions of speakers

English

egestion
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

egestion
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ابتراز
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

экскреция
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

egestion
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

egestion
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

égestion
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pemujaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

egestion
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

排せつ物
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

egestion
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Egestion
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

egestion
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செரிமானபண்பற்ற உணவு வெளியேற்றல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अतिनील
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

egestion
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

egestion
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

egestion
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

екскреція
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

egestion
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

egestion
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

egestie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

egestion
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

egestion
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of egestion

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EGESTION»

The term «egestion» is normally little used and occupies the 148.870 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EGESTION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «egestion» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «egestion» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about egestion

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EGESTION»

Discover the use of egestion in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to egestion and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Environmental Science
H20 (sweat) egestion of faeces (a) Ingestion The taking into the body of large, complex, insoluble organic food substances through the mouth. (b) Digestion The breaking down of these large insoluble organic molecules into smaller, simpler, ...
Kevin Byrne, 2001
2
Centrarchid Fishes: Diversity, Biology and Conservation
Egestion, excretion, and specific dynamic action (SDA) are energetic costs associated with digestion and processing of consumed food. Egestion represents the loss of energy in that portion of consumed food that is not digestible, passes ...
Steven Cooke, David P. Philipp, 2009
3
VK Science - Biology
Some part of the ingested food remains undigested which cannot be used by the body. So, the egestion is the elimination of faecal matter or undigested food outside the body. In other words, the process in which undigested food is removed ...
BS Tomar
4
Quagga and Zebra Mussels: Biology, Impacts, and Control, ...
18 (46.4) where U is the excretion rate, in g (dry) · g (wet mass) −1 · day−1 C is the consumption rate F is the egestion rate Estimates of Diporeia egestion rates are limited, and there is no information on energy lost to specific dynamic action ( S) ...
Thomas F. Nalepa, Don W. Schloesser, 2013
5
The Pollution Biology of Aquatic Oligochaetes
Table 4.10 Instantaneous egestion rates (corrected for 1.5 mg dw) and total production (somatic plus cocoon biomass) in Tubifex tubifex exposed to different sediments in the 28-day chronic bioassay (From Martinez-Madrid et al. 1999, data ...
Pilar Rodriguez, Trefor B. Reynoldson, 2011
6
Formula Handbook for Environmental Engineers and Scientists
EGESTION (EVACUATION) RATE OF ZOOPLANKTON 91 EGESTION ( EVACUATION) RATE OF ZOOPLANKTON See INGESTION RATE: Zooplankton on Protozoa. Definition The egestion (evacuation) rate of zooplankton is the amount of ...
Gabriel Bitton, 1998
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Biology
Egestion. The rectum stores the dried, undigested remains of food. Together with dead cells which have sloughed off the gut, dead bacteria and bile pigments, these form the faeces. Relaxation of the sphincter muscle around the anus allows  ...
Martin Rowland, 1992
8
Handbook of Property Estimation Methods for Chemicals: ...
9.3.2.7.3 Fecal Egestion In addition to eliminating chemical substances via the respiratory surfaces of organisms, many aquatic organisms can eliminate chemical substances in fecal matter. Elimination by fecal egestion is generally ...
Donald Mackay, Robert S. Boethling, 2000
9
Leafhopper Vectors and Plant Disease Agents
Virus that is acquired and retained in this way could subsequently be inoculated into plants by egestion (section 7.3.3, semipersistent transmission, in Harris, 1977a; Harris, 1978a). Ingested virus would have more numerous and more varied ...
Karl Maramorosch, 2012
10
Small Mammals: Their Productivity and Population Dynamics
Estimating egestion is more difficult since nutrients are lost through multiple pathways. Analysis of the large intestine contents can be used to calculate a rough estimate of egestion (Briese, 1973; Table 9.6), but in most cases the estimates are ...
Frank B. Golley, Kazimierz Petrusewicz, L. Ryszkowski (eds.), 1975

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EGESTION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term egestion is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The digestive process of studying maths
Finally, there is egestion, the removal of undigested and innutritious material from the body. Similarly, a learner of maths must allocate his ... «TODAYonline, Jun 15»
2
Seahawks' Doug Baldwin apologizes for crappy Super Bowl …
Some have speculated that he might have been aiming his mock egestion at New England Patriots cornerback Darrelle Revis, who was ... «Yahoo Sports, Feb 15»
3
Gibson on Texas A&M assistant's antics: 'That's embarrassing'
What a bunch of losers, pantywaists and twerps! The next sound you hear will be PITT choking on its own egestion! January 2, 2015 at 3:42 pm ... «West Virginia MetroNews, Dec 14»
4
Investing in Aquaculture's Future
Overfeeding and egestion is the main source of waste materials in many large aquaculture practices, contributing to deteriorating local water ... «TheFishSite.com, Dec 13»
5
Extreme abdominal pain may point to intestinal obstruction
Before long, the intestines are pressured to slide into one another, after which the affected area starts to rot because the egestion (expulsion of ... «New Vision, Jul 13»
6
The Best and Worst Super Bowl Ads
... agencies think up. This spot also forced us all to ponder what sort of terrifying egestion might result if a goat actually ate 156 bags of Doritos. «Slate Magazine, Feb 13»
7
Study reveals that animals contribute to seagrass dispersal
Tanks Sarah Sumoski used these tanks to study ingestion and egestion of eelgrass seeds by the mud minnow or mummichog Fundulus ... «William and Mary News, Dec 12»
8
What Is Metabolism: How Long After I Eat Is Weight Added To My …
"We have a pretty good indication about the timeline from the sequence of ingestion, digestion, and egestion. The whole thing plays out over a ... «Huffington Post, Jul 12»
9
MFA show shows something that might be nothing
Included in these captured moments are naked bodies in the act of egestion photographed by Katie Koti ART '12 that display the sensuality of ... «Yale Daily News, Sep 11»
10
Thomas Bernhard, the Alienator
... fate — as just another animal subject to the gross processes of lust and hunger, micturition and egestion, the permanent nothing of death. «New York Times, Dec 10»

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