misingest

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ ingest

Verb

misingest (third-person singular simple present misingests, present participle misingesting, simple past and past participle misingested)

1. To ingest by accident.
   • 1974, The Journal of the American Dental Association, page 169:

     A radiograph of the abdomen indicated that the blade of a hand reamer was misingested in the stomach wall of a young patient who was undergoing endodontic treatment.

   • 2006 March, Y Moriwaki, H Toyoda, T Kosuge, M Sugiyama, “A case of esophageal foreign body (dental prosthesis with sharp clasp) saved by emergency thoracic esohagectomy with simultaneous reconstruction”, in Japanese Journal of Gastrenterologic Surgery, volume 39, number 3:

     Most misingested dental prostheses are easily removed by endoscope or fall naturally into the stomach.

   • 2007 March, WJ Soong, YS Yuh, “Ingested button battery retrieved by a modified magnet endoscope”, in Journal of the Chinese Medical Association, volume 70, number 3:

     A 9-month-old male infant, 8 kg, was referred to our hospital for a known BB in his abdomen, which had been misingested 5 days previously.

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