Processing food into forms suitable for use by an organism. Historical explanations by digestive heat must be distinguished from modern physiology.
An aggregate containing amphipathic molecules such as bile salts and products of lipid digestion, helping deliver poorly water-soluble lipids to intestinal absorptive surfaces.
Transfer of digested nutrients across absorptive surfaces, especially the small intestine. This is distinct from optical absorption.
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