Usually means: Breaking down food before ingestion.
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  1. predigestion: Merriam-Webster
  2. predigestion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. predigestion: Collins English Dictionary
  4. predigestion: Wordnik
  5. predigestion: Wiktionary
  6. predigestion: Dictionary.com
  7. Predigestion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. predigestion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Predigestion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. predigestion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. predigestion: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Predigestion: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. predigestion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. predigestion: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  The partial hydrolysis etc. of food, by enzymes or other materials, prior to normal digestion

Similar:
prehydration, preprocessing, predenaturation, preabsorption, predecomposition, preoxidation, preacidification, predilution, presaturation, premastication, more...

Opposite:
indigestion, dyspepsia, upset stomach

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Similar:
prehydration, preprocessing, predenaturation, preabsorption, predecomposition, preoxidation, preacidification, predilution, presaturation, premastication, more...

Opposite:
indigestion, dyspepsia, upset stomach



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