For this purpose, all flatulent and indigestible food should be carefully avoided.
It is even possible that the strong irritation set up by some varieties of indigestible food might propagate an irritation to the spinal cord which would produce an interbitory paralysis at once.
In a few instances, angina seems to be provoked by the irritation of indigestible food, and when there is good reason to suspect this an emetic should be given.
There is no occasion to describe minutely the symptoms of so familiar a disease as lead-colic, or as colic from irritation by indigestible food, when they occur in their typical forms.
But every oyster supplies a moist and somewhat indigestible kind of nourishment, and they are not at all good as diuretics.
The nuts of Pontus are apt to produce headaches, but still they are not so indigestible as the Royal nuts.
The bread called encryphiasis is heavy and difficult of digestion, because it is not baked in an equal manner; but that which is called ipnites and caminites is indigestible and apt to disagree with people.
The Pontic nut too is oily and indigestible; but the almond is not so indigestible as that, and accordingly if we eat a number of them we do not feel any inconvenience; and they appear more oily, and give out a sweet and oily juice.
Now the roe of every fish, whether fresh or dried and salted, is indigestible and apt to disagree.
An indigestiblemorsel of food is like a runaway team in a crowded street.
An indigestible morsel of food in the stomach, and all the way through the intestines, is like a "bull in a china shop.
Sidenote: Reasons given for cooking starch] The statement is frequently made that the starch of grain cannot be digested without cooking, because the cells enclosing the starch grains have indigestible or insoluble cellulose walls.
Chemically, it is pure cellulose, which is insoluble and indigestible in the ordinary digestive solvents of the body.
Heat destroys the delicate flavor of many fruits, and makes others indigestibleby coagulating their albumen.
It is the stimulus imparted by the thrice daily ingestion of so many unnatural and indigestible articles that compose the mixed diet, which prevents so many from resting when they are tired.
Besides if indigestible or improper food be taken into the stomach, the blood will not only be made impure, but the stomach and the bowels will be disordered.
What a pale; dry name to apply to those crumbling, melting, indigestible German confections!
The most indigestible of all kinds of food, are fatty and oily substances; especially if heated.
Many vegetable foods, nuts for example, are readily digested by vegetarians accustomed to their use, though almost universally found indigestible by flesh-eaters.
No civilised fish would have deigned to give a second thought to the obvious deception which a mass of indigestible pork presented, but fish of the backwoods--especially in the early years of this century--were not suspicious.
Much of the indigestible food given to swine deranges the stomach, and destroys the powers of assimilation, or, in other words, leaves it in morbid state.
It mostly arises from want of exercise, feeding on frosted oats, indigestible matter of every kind, impure water, &c.
Many diseases of the liver and digestive organs result from feeding on unwholesome, innutritious, and hard, indigestible food.
Proper attention, however, must be paid to the state of the digestive organs: they must not be overtaxed with indigestible substances.
Our experience in this connection was that coarse indigestible bread became much less harmful when any butter could be had to eat with it.
There were slabs of indigestible cake, buns in abundance, and tea, with milk and sugar mixed, in illimitable quantities.
Tottie selected a moderate slab of the indigestible cake, and sat down on a stool to eat it with as much patience as she could muster in the circumstances.
All indigestible articles of food should be avoided and the diet should consist principally of bread, vegetables, milk, and fruits.
Pickles, boiled cabbage, and other indigestible articles should never be eaten.
It is generally the result of eating indigestible articles of food, such as unripe fruit or uncooked vegetables.
The Herring Gull is an extremely voracious bird, eating nearly everything that comes in its way, and rejecting the indigestible parts as Hawks do.
The indigestible parts are afterwards cast up in pellets in the same manner as with Hawks.
The preparation of fruit must consist in removing from it all indigestible parts, such as the peel, and also such parts as the child inadvertently may absorb to his detriment, as, for example, the seed.
But his ration would doubtless consist to a greater extent of hay and straw-chaff, containing a larger proportion of indigestible and effete woody fibre.
The animals affected seem to have an irresistible desire to lick, chew and swallow indigestible and disgusting objects.
The first symptom is the desire to chew, lick or eat indigestible or filthy substances.
An inclination to gnaw or swallowindigestible objects is sometimes noted.
It is safe to attribute the national disease of dyspepsia to this cause fully as much as to the indigestibleviands of which the ordinary citizen makes his chief diet.
Knowing no other mode of life, the children will rarely think of questioning the judgment that sends them to bed early after their light supper, instead of permitting them to sit up to a late, heavy, and indigestible course dinner.
Then it becomes one of the most indigestible substances in the world.
They are very difficult to hydrolyze, and indigestible by animals.
Because of this difficulty of hydrolysis, gums are practically indigestibleby animals and of little use as food.
Overeating, eating between meals, hasty eating, eating indigestible articles of food, late suppers, react upon the sexual organs with the utmost certainty.
Eating clay, slate-pencils, plaster, chalk, and other indigestible articles is a practice to which girls who abuse themselves are especially addicted.
Sound sleep is natural for childhood; and if sleeplessness be not occasioned by dietetic errors, as eatingindigestible food, eating between meals, or eating late suppers, it may justly be a cause for suspicion of evil habits.
The indigestible cellulose of fruits, vegetables, and cereals is of such importance in the body that some of these foods should be supplied with every meal.
The cooking of fruits is another means of making the cellulose in them more easily digested, for it softens, or disintegrates, the various particles of the indigestible material.
Having a high content of indigestible residues they probably showed up in the pellets in percentages out of proportion to their importance in the diet.
These percentages were probably high, since there is a high proportion of indigestibleresidues in oats.
One limitation of data based on material from pellets is the impossibility of closely correlating the volume of indigestibleresidues with the proportion of food items actually eaten.
In my samples, plant material amounted to 69 per cent of the indigestible residues.
Such correlation is prevented not only by the different percentages of indigestible residues in different food items but also by irregularities in regurgitation and in the efficiency of the crow's digestive system.
Indigestible materials were found in the feces, but these were of the same types as those found in the pellets.
Larvae of insects (especially beetles), and earthworms might have provided a major source of food which lacked sufficient indigestible material to form pellets.
It is well known that owls hunt by night, but it may be less a matter of common knowledge that, like other birds of prey, they return by the mouth the hard indigestible parts of their food in the form of elongated pellets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indigestible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
