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Mastication vs Ingestion - What's the difference?

mastication | ingestion |

As nouns the difference between mastication and ingestion

is that mastication is the process of chewing while ingestion is the action of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other substance. It is usually referred to as the first step of digestion.

mastication

English

Noun

(mastications)
  • (physiology) The process of chewing.
  • *1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
  • *:"It is more blasphemous than that thing which is swiping our meat," I replied, for whatever the thing was, it had leaped upon our deer and was devouring it in great mouthfuls which it swallowed without mastication . The creature appeared to be a great lizard at least ten feet high, with a huge, powerful tail as long as its torso, mighty hind legs and short forelegs.
  • The process of crushing as though chewed.

    • ingestion

    English

    (wikipedia ingestion)

    Noun

  • The action of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other substance. It is usually referred to as the first step of digestion.

    • Derived terms

    * avian ingestion