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Ingest

to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.

Origin: L. Ingenium, p. P. Of ingerere to put in; pref. In- in _ gerere to bear.


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Re: Mucosal Wound

... common are these wounds though? I mean it's not like people pick their nose so excessively that they incur wounds all the time..or ppl ingest something sharp on purpose..so that would mean that if a mucosal wound was to occur it would be rare? Something entering your eye, getting stabbed ...

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by biology_06er
Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:45 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Mucosal Wound
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Stomach bloating and weight gain

... on my body, my digestive enzymes are not at a level like I had in my youth. So now I need help. I am also researching now the different foods to ingest that could help me even more in my goal of health. Let the experimenting begin!!

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by kolean
Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:43 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
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Re: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox

... They are very different from Eukaryotes (us) genetically--that's why they are in a seperate domain from protists, fungi, plants and animals. They ingest plasmids and are infected by viruses. Thus they have insertions, deletions and replacement of their DNA. Some of them revert back and are called ...

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by AFJ
Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:07 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox
Replies: 120
Views: 2308

Re: Stomach bloating and weight gain

Not so. Not most ingested enzymes will be denatured and destroyed upon entering the stomache. Stomach acids do not secrete until the food is ingested and takes a couple of minutes to "gear up" for the meal coming (acinar ...

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by MichaelXY
Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:08 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
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Food and DNA

... patterns (up- or downregulation), but they do not affect the DNA sequence itself or it's "health". It is possible that some things we ingest may cause epigenetic changes (i.e. long-lasting, possibly inheritable changes in the expression of genes), but again, this is not related to ...

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by biohazard
Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:12 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Food and DNA
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