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Digester   /dˈaɪdʒˌɛstər/   Listen
noun
Digester  n.  
1.
One who digests.
2.
A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. "Rice is... a great restorer of health, and a great digester."
3.
A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them.





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"Digester" Quotes from Famous Books



... chemical fluid called the gastric juice, a substance which has the peculiar property of making soluble and dissolving out the nutritious matter in the grass, and leaving behind those parts which are not nutritious; so that you have, first, the mill, then a sort of chemical digester; and then the food, thus partially dissolved, is carried back by the muscular contractions of the intestines into the hinder parts of the body, while the soluble portions are taken up into the blood. The blood is contained in a vast system of pipes, spreading ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley
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... place where we slept water necessarily boiled, from the diminished pressure of the atmosphere, at a lower temperature than it does in a less lofty country; the case being the converse of that of a Papin's digester. Hence the potatoes, after remaining for some hours in the boiling water, were nearly as hard as ever. The pot was left on the fire all night, and next morning it was boiled again, but yet the potatoes ...
— The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin
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... soup prepared by dissolving meat bones in a Papin's digester ever been known to produce ossification of any of the soft tissues? A. We have never heard of such a result. 2. Has it ever been known to produce a new crop of teeth in toothless persons? A. We have no data as ...
— Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 • Various
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