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

Alimental :: Alimental (a.) Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap..

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

Nutritive :: Nutritive (a.) Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries..

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..

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..

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

Gut :: Gut (n.) An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.

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

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

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

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.

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

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..

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.

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

Enteropneusta :: Enteropneusta (n. pl.) A group of wormlike invertebrates having, along the sides of the body, branchial openings for the branchial sacs, which are formed by diverticula of the alimentary canal. Balanoglossus is the only known genus. See Illustration in Appendix..

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