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Aliment :: Aliment (v. t.) To provide for the maintenance of.

Aliment :: Aliment (n.) An allowance for maintenance.

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..

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..

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

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme..

Superaltar :: Superalimentation (n.) The act of overfeeding, or making one take food in excess of the natural appetite for it..

Flatulent :: Flatulent (a.) Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.

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

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

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.

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

Hindgut :: Hindgut (n.) The posterior part of the alimentary canal, including the rectum, and sometimes the large intestine also..

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..

Ingesta :: Ingesta (n. pl.) That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta.

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..

Intestine :: Intestine (a.) That part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.

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

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

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.

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