Meanings :
1. Digestion : The breakdown of complex components of food into simpler substances.
2. Ingestion : The process of taking food into the body.
3. Pancreas : Large cream coloured gland located just below the stomach.
4. Proteins : Molecules composed of one or more long chains of amino acids.
5. Bile juice : Digestive juice secreted by the liver.
6. Gall bladder : A sac like structure that stores bile juice secreted by the liver.
7. Glucose : The simplest form of sugar that provides energy to the body.
8. Absorption: The process in which the digested food is absorbed by the small intestine.
9. Villi : Finger-like outgrowths in the inner walls of the small intestine.
10. Assimilation : The process by which absorbed food is taken to different organs of the body via the blood vessels to build complex substances like proteins needed by the body.
11. Egestion : The removal of fecal matter through the anus.
12. Rumen : The separate part of the stomach where grass eating animals like cows, buffaloes store their swallowed grass.
13. Cellulose : A type of carbohydrate found mostly in grass.
14. Pseudopodia : Finger like projections in amoeba that help in movement and capturing food.