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Definition of Digestives
1. digestive [n] - See also: digestive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digestives
Literary usage of Digestives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Qualitative Analysis of Medicinal Preparations by Henry Corbin Fuller (1920)
"Digest with a small quantity of cold water, filter and test filtrate for sugar,
digestives and alkaloids. To test for pepsin a portion of the filtrate made ..."
2. Dental materia medica and therapeutics by Hermann Prinz (1917)
"... stomach) and digestives (from digere, to digest) form one of the many groups
in pharmaco- therapeutics which can not be precisely defined. ..."
3. The Chemistry and Analysis of Drugs and Medicines by Henry Corbin Fuller (1920)
"CHAPTER XXIII PROTEINS AND digestives PROTEINS THE chemistry of the proteins in
so far as it affects the drug anal; is confined to those groups which occur ..."
4. Diseases of the Stomach by Ismar Boas (1907)
"... (or digestives). By this term is meant substances which, similarly to the
bitters, influence favourably the act of digestion in particular, ..."
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