(from the article `digestion`) Animals that ingest bulk food unavoidably take in some matter that they are incapable of using. In the case of unicellular organisms that form food ... Egestion is the act of excreting unusable or undigested material from a cell, as in the case of single-celled organisms, or from the digestive tract ... ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/e/13
Removal of undigested food or faeces from the gut. In most animals egestion takes place via the anus, although the invertebrate flatworms must use the mouth because their gut has no exit. Egestion refers solely to indigestible matter which is never absorbed into the cells – it should not be confused with excretion of the waste products of meta...... Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21221