verb
- past tense and past participle of egest; to discharge or expel (waste matter) from the body, especially through the digestive system.
Usage: formal or technical; biology/medicine
Examples
- The organism egested the undigested food particles after several hours.
- Waste materials were egested through the intestinal tract.
- The larvae egested their metabolic byproducts into the surrounding medium.
- After digestion, the body egested the remaining solids.
- The patient's system egested the medication residue naturally.