Digestive-system meaning

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The digestive tract and digestive glands regarded as an integrated system responsible for the ingestion, digestion, and absorption of food.
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The digestive tract and digestive glands regarded as an integrated system responsible for the ingestion, digestion, and absorption of food.
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The alimentary canal together with the salivary glands, liver, pancreas, and other organs of digestion.
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(anatomy) A system of organs for the purpose of digesting food.

All the food that you eat goes through your digestive system and is digested.

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Digestive-system Sentence Examples

  • The digestive system consists of a simple or bifurcated sac, opening through the mouth by means of a "pharynx bulbosus," adapted to act primarily as a sucker, and secondarily, when drawing blood, as an aspirator.

  • Some of the central cells remain in clumps as "germ-balls," others form a mesenchyma in which "flame-cells" arise; others again give rise to muscles; and at the thicker end of the body, rudiments of the brain and digestive system are observable.

  • The digestive system has a slender gullet, a large crop and no gizzard; in some Hemiptera the hinder region of the mid-gut forms a twisted loop with the gullet.

  • The males are unlike the females in most species; only in Eosphora digitata, Rhinops vitrea, Proales werneckii, and the Seisonaceae a complete digestive system is present.

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