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Definition of Alimentary
1. Adjective. Of or providing nourishment. "Good nourishing stew"
Similar to: Wholesome
Derivative terms: Aliment, Nourish, Nourish, Nutrient, Nutrition, Nutrition, Nutritiousness, Nutritiveness
Definition of Alimentary
1. a. Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances.
Definition of Alimentary
1. Adjective. of, or relating to food, nutrition or digestion ¹
2. Adjective. nourishing; nutritious ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alimentary
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Alimentary
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Alimentary
Literary usage of Alimentary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"Apparatus for the Digestion of the Food consists of the alimentary canal _L and
of certain accessory organs. The alimentary canal is a ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"alimentary glycosuria, when arising from intake of any sugar, is termed e saccharo;
when from starch, ex amylo (invariably diabetic); and when from a mixed ..."
3. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer, George Dancer Thane (1890)
"The early development of the primitive alimentary canal has already been briefly
... so that the alimentary canal for some time after its formation is ..."
4. Text-book of the embryology of man and mammals by Oscar Hertwig, Edward Laurens Mark (1901)
"Differentiation of the alimentary Tube into Separate Regions and Formation of
the Mesenteries. At first the alimentary tube is broadly in contact (fig. ..."
5. A Treatise on Food and Diet: With Observations on the Dietetical Regimen by Jonathan Pereira (1843)
"alimentary principles are themselves compound substances. ... Thus fibrine (an
alimentary principle) is composed of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, ..."
6. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"Next to the presence of food in the interior of the alimentary canal a deficient
oxygénation of the blood supplied to the walls of the canal or the sudden ..."
7. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1904)
"... as a result of a thorough examination of all, or nearly all, the published
cases of primary sarcoma of the alimentary tract. Our attention was called to ..."
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