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Definition of Egestive
1. egestion [adj] - See also: egestion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Egestive
Literary usage of Egestive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scientific Memoirs: Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of by Arthur Henfrey, Thomas Henry Huxley (1853)
"If we cast a glimpse over the whole series of animals, we find the respiratory
system sometimes connected with the ingestive, sometimes with the egestive ..."
2. The Essentials of anatomy by William Darling, Ambrose Loomis Ranney (1880)
"The infra-diaphragmatic portion is digestive and egestive in function, and has
as appendages, the liver, the spleen, and the pancreas. ..."
3. Food Composition and Human Ills: Mental and Physiological : Facts and by Charles McCormick (1919)
"Here we have a physical-physiological reason why we should have knowledge of
what, when and how to eat. The egestive system is a most complex one; but, ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"... retains this primitive opening throughout life—as the egestive aperture ;
numerous ingestive apertures being developed in the lateral walls of the ..."
5. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"... so that there is only a single egestive opening, known as the cloacal aperture.
On either side of this there may be a small abdominal pitre (ab. p. ..."
6. Organic Evolution: A Text Book by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"... then forward along the dorsal side to the anterior end, then backward past
the mouth until it reaches an egestive area, not an actual aperture, ..."
7. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1900)
"... in two opposite radii in correlation to the hypertrophy of the ingestive and
egestive functions, respectively, * EW Macbride, Natural Science, ..."
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