Word Meanings - DIGESTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Digestion. Harvey.

HARVEY PROCESS
A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued
DIGESTION
The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood. (more info) 1. The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.
INDIGESTION
Lack of proper digestive action; a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion.
PREDIGESTION
Artificial digestion of food for use in illness or impaired digestion. (more info) 1. Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion. Bacon.