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Digestive tube   /daɪdʒˈɛstɪv tub/   Listen
Digestive tube

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 tract, gastrointestinal tract, GI tract.





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"Digestive tube" Quotes from Famous Books



... the product of gastric derangement, acts for a time as a counter-irritant, and as such affords temporary relief to the internal organs; but when continued, as in the farther progress of the disease, it, in common with all irritants on the skin, returns with interest to the digestive tube, the irritation which it ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various


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