ingested

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Ingested coin or button batteries result in thousands of emergency hospital visits each year, according to the U.S.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024

Ingested material enters the mouth and passes through a hollow, tubular cavity.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Ingested or breathed in, lead — a toxic metal once widely used in paint, pipes and finishes — accumulates in bones and harms the brain and kidneys, among other organs.

From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2019

Ingested on its own, it has no effect on humans, because it is rapidly degraded by an enzyme in the gut, monoamine oxidase.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2016

Ingested food, passing down the alimentary tract, was absorbed as chyle from the intestine, collected by the portal vessel, and conveyed by it to the liver.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.