Ingestion

Ingestion can mean:-

The process of taking a substance into the body through the mouth. Depending on its properties and whether it is digestible, the substance may or may not be absorbed by the digestive system to spread deeper into the body. When the substance is food, ingestion is referred to as eating. Ingestion is the most common method of taking medication. It is also a route for pathogenic organisms and toxic substances to enter the body. Substances can also enter the body by inhalation, injection, absorption through the skin.
The act of a mechanism picking up something and making it enter an internal hollow of the mechanism, such as "The cut reeds drifted downstream, and some of them were ingested by the water company's extraction pump, thus clogging it.". See wiktionary:ingest.