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

Digestive :: Digestive (n.) That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine..

Concoct :: Concoct (v. t.) To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.

Amphopeptone :: Amphopeptone (n.) A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone..

Enterocoele :: Enterocoele (n.) A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo..

Agastric :: Agastric (a.) Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm..

Pancreatin :: Pancreatin (n.) One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion..

Elixation :: Elixation (n.) A seething; digestion.

Digester :: Digester (n.) One who digests.

Elastin :: Elastin (n.) A nitrogenous substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of elastic tissue. It is very insoluble in most fluids, but is gradually dissolved when digested with either pepsin or trypsin..

Musang :: Musang (n.) A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also coffee rat..

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To quiet or abate, as anger or grief..

Recompilement :: Recompilement (n.) The act of recompiling; new compilation or digest; as, a recompilement of the laws..

Insectivorous :: Insectivorous (a.) plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc..

Fibrin :: Fibrin (n.) A white, albuminous, fibrous substance, formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice..

Indigested :: Indigested (a.) Not in a state suitable for healing; -- said of wounds.

Chylifaction :: Chylifaction (n.) The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process..

System :: System (n.) An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ; as, the capillary system, the muscular system, the digestive system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity..

Heavy :: Heavy (superl.) Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; -- said of food..

Metabolism :: Metabolism (n.) The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism)..

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