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Definition of Intestinal juice
1. Noun. Secretions by glands lining the walls of the intestines.
Medical Definition of Intestinal juice
1. An alkaline straw-coloured fluid secreted by the intestinal glands; its enzymes (peptidases, saccharases, nucleases, lecithinases, phosphatases, lipases) complete the hydrolysis of carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intestinal Juice
Literary usage of Intestinal juice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"... J[acol>] and Hekma, K. Un the intestinal juice of man. Amsterdam, Proc. Sei.
K. Akad. Wet., 4, 1902, (733-746). (English) ; Amsterdam, Vers!. Wie. Xat. ..."
2. A Text-book of human physiology: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and by Austin Flint (1881)
"With regard to the general properties of the intestinal juice, the observations
of Busch upon his case of intestinal fistula agree with those of Bidder and ..."
3. A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body: Including an by Arthur Gamgee (1893)
"THE PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERS OF THE intestinal juice. The intestinal
juice is a pale yellow, usually somewhat turbid, liquid, of powerfully alkaline ..."
4. The Standard Dictionary of Facts: History, Language, Literature, Biography edited by Henry Woldmar Ruoff (1909)
"The process is aided by the intestinal juice. The bile also acts upon fats, and
thus the food is formed into the chyle, which is absorbed into the system by ..."
5. Immunity in Infective Diseases by Elie Metchnikoff (1907)
"The intestinal juice, from whatever region of the small intestine it be derived,
exercises an undoubtedly favourable influence on the digestion of starch by ..."
6. A Text-book of Human Physiology by Robert Adolph Armand Tigerstedt (1906)
"intestinal juice The intestinal juice of man is a thin, clear, alkaline fluid
... intestinal juice acts but feebly on starch. It inverts cane sugar, ..."
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