Digestive-tract meaning

The mucous membrane–lined tube of the digestive system through which food passes, in which digestion takes place, and from which wastes are eliminated. It extends from the mouth to the anus and includes the pharynx, esophagus, stomach, and intestines.
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The mucous membrane–lined tube of the digestive system through which food passes, in which digestion takes place, and from which wastes are eliminated. It extends from the mouth to the anus and includes the pharynx, esophagus, stomach, and intestines.
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The series of organs in the digestive system through which food passes, nutrients are absorbed, and waste is eliminated. In higher vertebrates, it consists of the esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines, rectum, and anus.
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System of organs within multicellular animals which takes in food, digests it to extract energy and nutrients, and expels the remaining waste.
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Digestive-tract Sentence Examples

  • The digestive tract of Patella offers some interesting features.

  • Formerly it was said that the head consisted of four the whole digestive tract may be ectodermal.

  • 18, in the Heteronemertines the lateral stems, while entirely uniform all through the posterior portion of the body, no longer individually exist in the oesophageal region, but here dissolve themselves into a network of vascular spaces surrounding this portion of the digestive tract.

  • C, A young redia, the digestive tract shaded.

  • Accordingly, the teeth and the whole digestive tract are modified.

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