Definition of aliment

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Aliment (n.) That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support.

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Alimentation :: Alimentation (n.) The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.
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..
Bromatology :: Bromatology (n.) The science of aliments.
Indigestion :: 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.
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..
Gastropneumatic :: Gastropneumatic (a.) Pertaining to the alimentary canal and air passages, and to the cavities connected with them; as, the gastropneumatic mucuos membranes..
Enteric :: Enteric (a.) Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal..
Ingest :: Ingest (v. t.) To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal..
Aliment :: Aliment (n.) That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support.
Alimentiveness :: Alimentiveness (n.) The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.
Nutriment :: Nutriment (n.) That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.
Anus :: Anus (n.) The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled..
Nutritious :: Nutritious (a.) Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental..
Alimentation :: Alimentation (n.) State or mode of being nourished.
Stomodaeum :: Stomodaeum (n.) A part of the alimentary canal. See under Mesenteron.
Aliment :: Aliment (v. t.) To provide for the maintenance of.
Carminative :: Carminative (n.) A substance, esp. an aromatic, which tends to expel wind from the alimentary canal, or to relieve colic, griping, or flatulence..
Ingesta :: Ingesta (n. pl.) That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta.
Intestine :: Intestine (a.) That part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.
Pharynx :: Pharynx (n.) The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in fishes and some amphibias..
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