a short, condensed account; (to cause food) to be changed in the stomach and bowels into a form that can be used in the body
abridgement of something written
Cases of word usage
1) the process of digesting; a person's ability to digest food (digestion)
2) difficult or impossible to digest (indigestible)
3) the scientific study of how living things work (e.g. grow, move, digest food etc) (physiology)