Crossword clues for alimentary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alimentary \Al`i*men"ta*ry\, a. [L. alimentarius, fr. alimentum: cf. F. alimentaire.] Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances.
Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Medieval Latin alimentarius "pertaining to food," from Latin alimentum "nourishment," from alere "to nourish, rear, support, maintain," from PIE root *al- "to grow, nourish" (see old).
Wiktionary
a. 1 of, or relating to food, nutrition or digestion 2 nourishing; nutritious
WordNet
adj. of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn: alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive]
Usage examples of "alimentary".
Such persons may be accustomed to luxurious living, and there is evidently a predisposition to abnormal activity of the alimentary functions.
It is generally due to acidity of the alimentary canal, to which the treatment must be directed.
It clung stickily to them, and emphasised the parallel between their situation and a cestode in an alimentary canal.
On all sides, the mountain made its presence felt, dwarfing them, threatening them, as if they were cestodes working their way up a vast alimentary canal.
Now, it is a remarkable fact, which affords additional and important evidence, that the ferment of Drosera is closely similar to or identical with pepsin, that none of these same substances are, as far as it is known, digested by the gastric juice of animals, though some of them are acted on by the other secretions of the alimentary canal.
It serves as a temporary reservoir for the excrementitial residue of alimentary matter, and for the effete materials excreted by the glands contained in its mucous coats.
These diseases will bear thorough depletion of the alimentary canal, active, hydragogue cathartics being indicated.
Sartre terms an alimentary philosophy, which presents consciousness as digesting contents, prefaces his own association of phenomenology with what might be called, by an extension of the metaphor, an emetic philosophy, which evacuates consciousness and throws it explosively into the world.
And when these exercises especially advised for stimulating the nerve centers and for strengthening and vitalizing the spine are combined with a liberal use of hot water, the blood is forced through all the tissues, with the general effect of thoroughly cleansing all parts, in addition to immediately cleansing the alimentary canal.
The improvement in the condition of your skin, in the purity of your blood, and in the degree of energy that you will enjoy will more than repay you for your efforts in following the various suggestions made for cleansing, strengthening, and vitalizing the alimentary canal.
Here it encounters the intestinal juice, pancreatic juice, and the bile, the secretion of all of which is stimulated by the presence of food in the alimentary tract.
The parasympathetic nerve fibers, on the other hand, act to slow the heartbeat, contract the pupil of the eye and the bronchi of the lungs and stimulate the activity of the alimentary canal muscles.
It forms the outer covering for the alimentary canal and other abdominal organs and supplies the inner lining of the cavity itself.
In the alimentary canal are certain pointed eminences called villi, and certain ridges called valvuloe conniventes.
Thus, the sympathetic nerve fibers act to accelerate the heartbeat, dilate the pupil of the eye and the bronchi of the lungs, and inhibit the activity of the smooth muscles of the alimentary canal.