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Digestive tract

noun

Tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about 8.3 meters from mouth to anus; functions in digestion and elimination. Synonyms: alimentary canal, alimentary tract, digestive tube, gastrointestinal tract, GI tract.

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"Digestive tract" Quotes from Famous Books

... the bodies of sick that were fed. As for medicines, they were utterly ignored except where pain was to be relieved, though unmedicated doses were alike a necessity with all. Not a single medicine was given except for pain, and occasionally in cases in which I had reason to think the entire digestive tract needed a general clearing of foul sewage. Thence on, that supreme work, the cure of disease, in my hands became the work ...

— The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure • Edward Hooker Dewey

... and sound. Immature fruit is never wholesome, and owing to the large percentage of water in its composition, fruit is very prone to change; hence over-ripe fruit should not be eaten, as it is liable to ferment and decompose in the digestive tract. ...

— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

Words linked to "Digestive tract" : small intestine, alimentary tract, digestive system, epithelial duct, duct, GI tract, gastrointestinal system, enteron, systema digestorium, canal, throat, tummy, breadbasket, stomach, tum, gullet, digestive tube, oesophagus, esophagus, large intestine, channel, pharynx, gorge, systema alimentarium