Synonyms for ingestion
in·ges·tion

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1. consumption, ingestion, intake, uptakenoun

   the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

   Synonyms:
   phthisis, use, expenditure, use of goods and services, uptake, inhalation, pulmonary tuberculosis, using up, wasting disease, breathing in, consumption, aspiration, economic consumption, inlet, intake, usance, inspiration, white plague

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1. List of paraphrases for "ingestion":

   intake, ingesting, ingest, feeding, collection

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1. Timothy Rohrig:

   All these symptoms she described, and the timing of the symptoms, were consistent with the ingestion of diphenhydramine.

2. Richard Hesketh:

   You need to bear in mind that children put all sorts of objects in their mouth, and doctors assessing nonspecific abdominal pain should always consider ingestion as a possible cause.

3. Andrew Mayes:

   The report also emphasizes that, while risks to health of microplastics through ingestion in water may be low, there is a continuing need to reduce plastic inputs into the environment at source, in order to prevent the problem becoming worse, this can be enacted through better waste management and implementation of incentive schemes and governments should prioritize such actions in the overall global strategy to reduce plastic inputs into oceans( the ultimate sink for all of the waste).

4. Leonardo Trasande:

   Insofar as old homes have not been evaluated or remediated, levels of lead in children’s blood are likely to be higher due to water ingestion, dust inhalation and contact with soil.

5. Adam Leventhal:

   In addition to the health hazards of vaping nicotine, other forms of nicotine ingestion like swallowing can be deadly, the high concentration of nicotine in some e-liquids if swallowed or absorbed into the body through other means is toxic, especially for infants and toddlers, who may be the siblings of older children who might be purchasing e-liquids and not aware of such hazards.