Digestion vs Decoction - What's the difference?
digestion | decoction |
The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body.
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The ability to use this process.
The processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms.
The assimilation and understanding of ideas.
(medicine, archaic) Generation of pus; suppuration.
An extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down.
* 1993 , Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford
* 1994 , Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies
As nouns the difference between digestion and decoction
is that digestion is the process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body while decoction is an extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down.digestion
English
(wikipedia digestion)Noun
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
decoction
English
(wikipedia decoction)Noun
(en noun)- Poley offered a hot decoction of blackberries, saying: Peace?
- Witches and devils no longer threaten you and me. We don’t mind living next door to the harmless lady with her herb garden and decoction still, her black cat and red hair.
