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Digestive tract   /daɪdʒˈɛstɪv trækt/   Listen
Digestive tract

noun
1.
Tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about 8.3 meters from mouth to anus; functions in digestion and elimination.  Synonyms: alimentary canal, alimentary tract, digestive tube, gastrointestinal tract, GI tract.






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"Digestive tract" Quotes from Famous Books



... and sound. Immature fruit is never wholesome, and owing to the large percentage of water in its composition, fruit is very prone to change; hence over-ripe fruit should not be eaten, as it is liable to ferment and decompose in the digestive tract. ...
— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

... the bodies of sick that were fed. As for medicines, they were utterly ignored except where pain was to be relieved, though unmedicated doses were alike a necessity with all. Not a single medicine was given except for pain, and occasionally in cases in which I had reason to think the entire digestive tract needed a general clearing of foul sewage. Thence on, that supreme work, the cure of disease, in my hands became the work ...
— The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure • Edward Hooker Dewey

... the absorption of the thickened tissues and restore them to a healthy activity, a number of bottles of the "Golden Medical Discovery" should be taken while using the local treatment. Any dormant condition of the liver or digestive tract may be corrected by taking Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets. In advanced cases after the structures are so diseased and thickened that it renders local treatment hopeless, only surgical interference can ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce



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