misingest

present singular third person misingests · participle present misingesting · participle past misingested · past misingested

1. To ingest by accident.

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

   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

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   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.

   1974, The Journal of the American Dental Association, page 169

   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.

   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