WordNet
n. tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about 8.3 meters from mouth to anus; functions in digestion and elimination [syn: alimentary canal, digestive tube, digestive tract, gastrointestinal tract, GI tract]
Usage examples of "alimentary tract".
It is a local stimulant to the mucous membrane, especially to the alimentary tract, and therefore is a remedy of great value as a carminative in flatulent colic and a useful addition to laxative medicine.
It has been used to arrest haemorrhage from the lungs or alimentary tract, but this property is not assigned to it in modern medicine.
There was no connecting alimentary tract, no soft tissue, no weak spot.
Now that he was inside it, he thought of the tubes as blood and lymph vessels, arid the tunnels as part of a vast alimentary tract, and the cables as nerves.
He reprimanded it sternly, and it sank back to its ordinary place in the alimentary tract.
Now that he was inside it, he thought of the tubes as blood and lymph vessels, and the tunnels as part of a vast alimentary tract, and the cables as nerves.
He claimed that the predominant taste of any crustacean or mollusk was that of its alimentary tract.
The culture was based on custom, the alimentary tract of the common water buffalo, and base treachery.
Everything between his lips and upper alimentary tract had been blitzed by a combination of food and liquid that most closely resembled carbonated turpentine.