Definition of Digestive system

1. Noun. The system that makes food absorbable into the body.


Definition of Digestive system

1. Noun. (anatomy) A system of organs for the purpose of digesting food. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Digestive system

1. The organs that are responsible for getting food into and out of the body and for making use of food to keep the body healthy. These include the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, small intestine, colon, and rectum. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Digestive System

digestifs
digesting
digestion
digestions
digestive
digestive apparatus
digestive biscuit
digestive enzymes
digestive fever
digestive fluid
digestive gland
digestive glycosuria
digestive juice
digestive leukocytosis
digestive physiology
digestive system
digestive system fistula
digestive system surgical procedures
digestive systems
digestive tract
digestive tracts
digestive tube
digestive vacuole
digestively
digestiveness
digestives
digestor
digestors
digests

Literary usage of Digestive system

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Inside the Cell by Maya Pines (1990)
"LYSOSOMES AND PEROXISOMES, THE CELL'S "digestive system" When a white blood cell engulfs a bacterium and destroys it, the white cell's lysosomes do most of ..."

2. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"Absorption and secretion in the digestive system of the land isopods. Philadelphia, Pa., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei., 54, 1902, (2,44 -359, with pi. ..."

3. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1916)
"... SECTION V DISEASES OF THE digestive system A. DISEASES OF THE MOUTH STOMATITIS Acute Stomatitis.—Simple or erythematous stomatitis, the commonest form, ..."

4. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1855)
"Pursuant to this plan, the diseases connected with tho digestive system come ... SECTION I. DISEASES OF THE digestive system. These are most conveniently ..."

5. Problems of Child Welfare by George Benjamin Mangold (1914)
"Diseases of the digestive system. The most deadly of all diseases of infancy and childhood are the various forms of acute intestinal diseases, ..."

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