Meanings of assimilate food in English

In dyspepsia the patient suffered from inability to assimilate food.

He was ravenously hungry, for now his system was rested enough to assimilate food.

We ought to have as good digestion of truth as we have capacity to assimilate food.

The aim of Level One is to support the digestive system so that it can assimilate food efficiently.

Yet they are independent living beings which grow, assimilate food, multiply and die like the big cell, Man.

Trees breathe constantly, but they digest and assimilate food only during the day and in the presence of light.

To starve is to go without food when the body is in condition to digest and assimilate food and needs nourishment.

In advanced life the tissue changes are slow, digestion is less active, and the ability to assimilate food is greatly diminished.

Have you lost the power of assimilating food?

Man's function as a force of nature was to assimilate other forces as he assimilated food.

It was capable of motion long before it had limbs; it assimilated food long before it had a mouth or a stomach.

Inanition form.-Notnourished because of interference in taking food or assimilating food, from cancer of the gullet, or disease of the stomach.

The effect of back-rubbing, accompanied by easily assimilated food in small quantities and often, was to lessen his weight by a considerable amount.