noun
- The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating.
- synonyms: consumption, ingestion, uptake
- An opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container.
- synonyms: inlet
- The act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing.
- synonyms: inhalation, inspiration, aspiration, breathing in
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