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
The digestive system is made up by the alimentary canal, or the digestive tract, and other abdominal organs that play a part in digestion such as the liver and the pancreas.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The archenteron develops into the alimentary canal, and a mouth opening is formed by invagination of ectoderm at the pole opposite the blastopore of the gastrula.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Both the mouth and anus are open to the external environment; thus, food and wastes within the alimentary canal are technically considered to be outside the body.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Very foul, offensive discharges from the bowels may always be understood as showing that in the alimentary canal, whether originating there or in the blood, morbid changes have been going on.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Vocabulary lists containing alimentary
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