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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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Carminative :: Carminative (n.) A substance, esp. an aromatic, which tends to expel wind from the alimentary canal, or to relieve colic, griping, or flatulence..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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