alimentary
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Let’s not overlook how long it takes for a federal lawsuit to make its way through the judicial alimentary canal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
Earthworms are an example of an animal with an alimentary canal.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Annelids possess a closed circulatory system of dorsal and ventral blood vessels that run parallel to the alimentary canal as well as capillaries that service individual tissues.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Figure 23.3 Layers of the Alimentary Canal The wall of the alimentary canal has four basic tissue layers: the mucosa, submucosa, muscularis, and serosa.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Food in the alimentary canal is, strictly speaking, outside the confines of the body; as much so as the fly grasped in the leaves of the insectivorous Dionea is outside of the plant itself.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
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