Peptic: alternatives and connections

The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.

Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm.

tiny fishes usually canned or salted; used for hors d'oeuvres or as seasoning in sauces

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids…

One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called…

The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.

The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.

Having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive.

A division of the Turbellaria in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlet…

The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root an…

To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the ac…

A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power.

Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.

A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds…

The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.

A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which ari…

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