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Definition of Digestive

1. Noun. Any substance that promotes digestion.

2. Adjective. Relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion. "Digestive ferment"

Definition of Digestive

1. a. Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.

2. n. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.

Definition of Digestive

1. Adjective. of, relating to, or functioning in digestion ¹

2. Adjective. having the power to cause or promote digestion ¹

3. Noun. a substance that aids digestion ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Digestive

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Digestive

1. Pertaining to digestion. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Digestive

digest digestant digested digestedly digester digesters digestibilities digestibility digestible digestibleness

digestif digestifs digesting digestion digestions digestive (current term) 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

Literary usage of Digestive

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

1. Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by Henry Clapp Sherman (1918)
"Bacterial Action in the digestive Tract The digestive tract of an infant contains no bacteria at birth, but usually some gain access during the first day of ..."

2. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"THE digestive ORGANS. 1. General Relations. ... On account of the frequency with which digestive disturbances of the most variable ..."

3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1892)
"If this is the case, the study of the digestive processes in the lowest ... With this object Dr Gaskell proposed to me to find out how the digestive ..."

4. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States Bureau of Animal Industry, Vickers T. Atkinson, William Dickson, William Heyser Harbaugh, James Law, John Robbins Mohler, A. J. Murray, William Herbert Lowe, Leonard Pearson, Brayton Howard Ransom, Milton R. Trumbower, Richard West Hickma (1916)
"Diseases of the digestive organs are very common among cattle, and may often be traced to defects in feeding. The first three stomachs of the larger ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"THE DISTURBANCES OF THE digestive APPARATUS AS CAUSES Ann RESULTS OF OTHER DISEASES. ... THE study of diseases of the digestive organs has in recent years ..."

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