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Digestive system

noun

The system that makes food absorbable into the body. Synonyms: gastrointestinal system, systema alimentarium, systema digestorium.

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... hereditary and often acquired. Two or more may exist in one person. Thus, there may be an idiosyncrasy connected with the digestive system, another with the circulatory system, another with the ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 • Various

... in her bearing something of her mind as well as of her body. We are always tempted to think a person who "slumps" physically may slump in other ways. A good carriage, good voice, and strong, clean, digestive system are far more important ...

— A Girl's Student Days and After • Jeannette Marks

... All the rules of prudence or gifts of experience that life can accumulate, will never do as much for human comfort and welfare as would be done by a stricter attention, and a wiser science, directed to the digestive system. In this attention lies the key to any perfect restoration for the victim of intemperance. The sheet-anchor for the storm-beaten sufferer who is laboring to recover a haven of rest from the agonies of intemperance, and ...

— The Opium Habit • Horace B. Day

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