Digestion

{di-jes’-chun) [digerere, to digest]. Those proce es whereby the food taken into an organism is made capable of being absorbed and a imilated by the body-ti ues. D., Artificial, digestion carried on outside of the body. D., Gastric, digestion by the action of the gastric juice. D., Intestinal, digestion by the action of the intestinal juices, including the action of the bile arid the pancreatic fluid. D., Pancreatic, digestion by the action of the pancreatic juice. D., Peptic. See D., Gastric. D., Primary, gastrointestinal digestion. D., Salivary, digestion by the saliva. D., Secondary, the a imilation by the body cells of their appropriate pabulum. 228