Ingestion
In the physiological and medical-toxicological field, ingestion describes the absorption of a substance through the mouth or digestive tract (as opposed, for example, to absorption through the skin or lungs, which is known as " incorporation "). In this context, z. B. the absorption of harmful substances through food or drinking water .
In addition, the term ingestion is also used when measuring the ecological energy balance of an organism. The ingestion rate is the amount of food consumed (e.g. in g or in kJ per unit of time) by the animal concerned or the population examined.
Recently, in the field of big data / data science, data input has been called data ingestion (taken from English).
Other routes of exposure
In addition to ingestion, the type of absorption (incorporation) can be inhalative (through breathing ), dermally (through skin contact), intravenous , intramuscular or intraperitoneal (i.e. through the abdominal cavity).
See also
swell
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Sommer : Biological Oceanography . Springer, 2005, ISBN 978-3-662-49881-1 , pp. 399 .