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Definition of Digestive tract
1. Noun. Tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about 8.3 meters from mouth to anus; functions in digestion and elimination.
Generic synonyms: Canal, Channel, Duct, Epithelial Duct
Group relationships: Digestive System, Gastrointestinal System, Systema Alimentarium, Systema Digestorium
Terms within: Breadbasket, Stomach, Tum, Tummy, Esophagus, Gorge, Gullet, Oesophagus, Small Intestine, Large Intestine, Pharynx, Throat
Specialized synonyms: Enteron
Definition of Digestive tract
1. Noun. System of organs within multicellular animals which takes in food, digests it to extract energy and nutrients, and expels the remaining waste. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Digestive tract
1. The passage leading from the mouth to the anus through the pharynx, oesophagus, stomach, and intestine. Synonym: alimentary canal, alimentary tract, digestive tube, tubus digestorius. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digestive Tract
Literary usage of Digestive tract
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. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"THE digestive tract. THE digestive tract is a continuous canal extending from the
... The beginning and termination of the digestive tract are under the ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"SYPHILIS OF THE digestive tract Syphilis of the Rectum.—The rectum is more
frequently the seat of specific lesions than any other part of the digestive ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1894)
"31), thinks it probable that, in the digestive tract of those individuals in whom
the ingestion of certain articles of food gives rise to urticaria, ..."
5. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"I. The digestive tract. Archenteron or Primitive digestive tract.—Since the taking
in of food and its assimilation are functions most important for the ..."
6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1885)
"... lies in the respective behavior of these two groups, when in contact with the
absorbent surfaces of the digestive tract. Thus, while the organic fats, ..."
7. The Early Embryology of the Chick by Bradley Merrill Patten (1920)
"... the optic vesicles; the lens; the posterior part of the brain and the cord
region of the neural tube; the neural crest. III. The digestive tract. ..."
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