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egest
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egest [ē′jest]
(physiology)
To discharge indigestible matter from the digestive tract.
To rid the body of waste.


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l]: chl a was unchanged in the feces and pseudofeces relative to the algal diet, indicating that cells of Isochrysis were excreted or egested in the same proportion as the diet (Fig.
1) My earlier work on origin of planetary systems, which similarly proposed that planetary materials were egested from the Sun, gave me the privilege of responding to Kompanichenko's brilliant work.
If sharks were indeed the scavenging animals, it is likely that the tags were regurgitated, rather than egested through the alimentary canal, whereupon the PSAT floated to the surface and was able to transmit the archived data.
 
 
 
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