Hindgut: alternatives and connections

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct.

An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

Expelling wind from the body; warming; antispasmodic.

That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion.]

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest th…

The science which treats of the glands of the alimentary canal.

Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal.

An inflammation of the intestines.

The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal.

A group of wormlike invertebrates having, along the sides of the body, branchial openings for the branchial sacs, which are formed by…

The superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymph…

That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.

Alt. of Flatlency

Affected with flatus or gases generated in the alimentary canal; windy.

The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, o/ to the entrance of the bile duct.

An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanent…