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

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.

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

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

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..

Nutriment :: Nutriment (n.) That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.

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..

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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