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Alimentation :: Alimentation (n.) The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

Aliment :: Aliment (v. t.) To nourish; to support.

Pabulous :: Pabulous (a.) Affording pabulum, or food; alimental..

Nutritious :: Nutritious (a.) Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental..

Monotremata :: 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..

Anus :: Anus (n.) The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled..

Foregut :: Foregut (n.) The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, o/ to the entrance of the bile duct..

Gastropneumatic :: Gastropneumatic (a.) Pertaining to the alimentary canal and air passages, and to the cavities connected with them; as, the gastropneumatic mucuos membranes..

Food :: Food (n.) What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment..

Alimentally :: Alimentally (adv.) So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality.

Alimentiveness :: Alimentiveness (n.) The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.

Midgut :: Midgut (n.) The middle part of the alimentary canal from the stomach, or entrance of the bile duct, to, or including, the large intestine..

Bromatology :: Bromatology (n.) The science of aliments.

Esophagus :: Esophagus (n.) That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive..

Enteradenology :: Enteradenology (n.) The science which treats of the glands of the alimentary canal.

Indican :: 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..

Mesenteron :: 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..

Splanchnic :: Splanchnapophysis (n.) Any element of the skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus..

Inalimental :: Inalimental (a.) Affording no aliment or nourishment.

Enteron :: Enteron (n.) The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal..

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