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

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

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

Epithelium :: 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..

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..

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

Alimentation :: Alimentation (n.) State or mode of being nourished.

Enteric :: Enteric (a.) Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal..

Stomach :: 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..

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

Stomodaeum :: Stomodaeum (n.) A part of the alimentary canal. See under Mesenteron.

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

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

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..

Broma :: Broma (n.) Aliment; food.

Ingest :: Ingest (v. t.) To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal..

Alimentariness :: Alimentariness (n.) The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality.

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.

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

Canal :: Canal (n.) A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear..

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