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- Alimentary - a. - Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances.
- Alimentation - n. - The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.
- Stomodaeum - n. - A part of the alimentary canal. See under Mesenteron.
- Alimentary - a. - Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances.
- Enteric - a. - Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal.
- Anus - n. - The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.
- Foregut - n. - The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, o/ to the entrance of the bile duct.
- Ingesta - n. pl. - That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta.
- Gut - n. - An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.
- Indican - n. - An indigo-forming substance, found in urine, and other animal fluids, and convertible into red and blue indigo (urrhodin and uroglaucin). Chemically, it is indoxyl sulphate of potash, C8H6NSO4K, and is derived from the indol formed in the alimentary canal. Called also uroxanthin.
- Carminative - n. - A substance, esp. an aromatic, which tends to expel wind from the alimentary canal, or to relieve colic, griping, or flatulence.
- Flatulent - a. - Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.
- Stomach - n. - An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.
- Epithelium - n. - The superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymphatics, serous cavities, etc. It often includes the epidermis (i. e., keratin-producing epithelial cells), and it is sometimes restricted to the alimentary canal, the glands and their appendages, -- the term endothelium being applied to the lining membrane of the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities.
- Canal - n. - A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear.
- Enteradenology - n. - The science which treats of the glands of the alimentary canal.
- Esophagus - n. - That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.
- Splanchnapophysis - n. - Any element of the skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus.
- Monotremata - n. pl. - A subclass of Mammalia, having a cloaca in which the ducts of the urinary, genital, and alimentary systems terminate, as in birds. The female lays eggs like a bird. See Duck mole, under Duck, and Echidna.
- Intestine - a. - That part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.
- Gastropneumatic - a. - Pertaining to the alimentary canal and air passages, and to the cavities connected with them; as, the gastropneumatic mucuos membranes.
- Mesenteron - n. - All that part of the alimentary canal which is developed from the primitive enteron and is lined with hypoblast. It is distinguished from the stomod/um, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctod/um, a part at the posterior end, which are formed by invagination and are lined with epiblast.
- Hindgut - n. - The posterior part of the alimentary canal, including the rectum, and sometimes the large intestine also.
- Indigestion - n. - Lack of proper digestive action; a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion.
- Midgut - n. - The middle part of the alimentary canal from the stomach, or entrance of the bile duct, to, or including, the large intestine.
- Digest - v. t. - To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.