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digestive
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
digestive
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
digestive biscuit
digestive organs (=the stomach, intestines etc, used to digest food)
▪ a disorder of the digestive organs
sb’s digestive/reproductive/nervous system (=in someone’s body)
▪ These vitamins are essential for a healthy nervous system.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
biscuit
▪ Miss Devenish, obviously used to these interruptions, offered Dougal another digestive biscuit.
disorder
▪ Stomach ulcers and other digestive disorders are rife and there is a high mortality rate amongst veal calves despite their brief lifetime.
▪ This means that the horse won't get the full benefit from his feed and it may also lead to digestive disorders.
enzyme
▪ The water acts as a solvent for the digestive enzymes secreted into the gut.
▪ The release of the digestive enzymes leads to cell death.
▪ This implies that the antibody is recognising an epitope that is cleaved by one of the digestive enzymes pepsin or trypsin.
▪ The pancreas is vital for digesting food, because it produces digestive enzymes as well as the hormone insulin.
▪ This, in turn, explodes to release a cocktail of digestive enzymes into the cell.
juice
▪ Soon the mere noise of the bell would start their digestive juices running.
▪ They crush their victim in their pincers, but feed by injecting digestive juices and sucking the prey dry.
organ
▪ This model has been used to evaluate the effects of chronic hypergastrinaemia on digestive organs, including the pancreas.
problem
▪ He acquired a lasting scientific interest in mucus, possibly augmented by digestive problems of his own.
process
▪ A good diet helps the digestive processes.
▪ Theresa began to talk about moderation, and how too much laughing upset the digestive process, but that was funny too.
▪ Unfortunately, apart from the papers quoted above, little has been done to distinguish immature from adult digestive processes.
▪ Coffee has been blamed for increasing the pulse rate and for interfering with the efficiency of the digestive process.
▪ The latter are more slowly converted into blood sugar, mainly because of the digestive processes described in the previous chapter.
▪ At the other end of the digestive process is the sewage question.
▪ It was almost certainly going through the final stages of the digestive process.
system
▪ Their actual digestive system is that of a carnivore and so bamboo is an unlikely foodstuff to choose.
▪ His sandwich had turned to a rock in his digestive system.
▪ As the churning mass swelled within him his resilient Goblin digestive system got to work on the over-abundance of raw material.
▪ The mouth and digestive system are remarkably well defended against bacteria and other disease-causing, agents.
▪ Your mouth becomes dry as your digestive system slows.
▪ The carnivorous digestive system would be useless without the means of catching prey.
▪ The little creatures have an endless appetite, and a digestive system that turns almost anything into perfect compost.
▪ Olestra is just something that travels through your digestive system for the sake of the ride.
tract
▪ But for all the insufficiency of Rheinberger's digestive tract, this is an enjoyable disc.
▪ Because it dissolves easily in water, it is rapidly absorbed from the digestive tract and mixes easily with blood.
▪ Or it could simply be activity in the digestive tract.
▪ What seems to happen is that the calcium in your food combines with oxalic acid right in your digestive tract.
▪ This is a cleansing agent of the digestive tract and it also aids digestion.
▪ Dinosaurs also had a larger digestive tract that seemed to have co-evolved with the changes in Earth's flora and fauna.
▪ Towards the end of his life he overdosed on dry adrenalin, and scorched his digestive tract.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gastric/digestive juice(s)
▪ A positive correlation was observed between the gastric juice ammonium and severity of gastritis.
▪ Can gastric juice ascorbic acid secretion be restored by eradication of H pylori?
▪ Peptic ulcers are produced by the self-destruction of the gut wall by pepsin and hydrochloric acid in gastric juice.
▪ Soon the mere noise of the bell would start their digestive juices running.
▪ The gastric juice was collected by gentle manual aspiration during 135 minutes.
▪ The stomach is mostly empty-the whisky is lying in a shallow pool where it is now mixed with highly acidic gastric juices.
▪ They crush their victim in their pincers, but feed by injecting digestive juices and sucking the prey dry.
▪ This is expressed as concentration of tyrosine, and it occurs by dilution of the gastric juices by the food.
the digestive/reproductive/urinary etc tract
▪ Because it dissolves easily in water, it is rapidly absorbed from the digestive tract and mixes easily with blood.
▪ It is rare, however, for the urinary tract to be affected.
▪ Obstruction covered all mechanical obstruction to the urinary tract, excluding prostatic disease.
▪ Or it could simply be activity in the digestive tract.
▪ There may be much urging to urinate, smarting, stinging, burning along the urinary tract.
▪ This can have devastating consequences, and may cause long-term damage to the urinary tract.
▪ This is a cleansing agent of the digestive tract and it also aids digestion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the churning mass swelled within him his resilient Goblin digestive system got to work on the over-abundance of raw material.
▪ Because it dissolves easily in water, it is rapidly absorbed from the digestive tract and mixes easily with blood.
▪ Is that Troy Aikman or a koala with lower digestive difficulties looking so uncomfortable on the Dallas sideline?
▪ Miss Devenish, obviously used to these interruptions, offered Dougal another digestive biscuit.
▪ The mouth and digestive system are remarkably well defended against bacteria and other disease-causing, agents.
▪ The water acts as a solvent for the digestive enzymes secreted into the gut.
▪ Their actual digestive system is that of a carnivore and so bamboo is an unlikely foodstuff to choose.
▪ Theresa began to talk about moderation, and how too much laughing upset the digestive process, but that was funny too.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Digestive

Digestive \Di*gest"ive\, n.

  1. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.
    --Chaucer.

    That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself.
    --Blackw. Mag.

  2. (Med.)

    1. A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration.
      --Dunglison.

    2. A tonic. [R.]

Digestive

Digestive \Di*gest"ive\, a. [F. digestif, L. digestivus.] Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.

Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be.
--B. Jonson.

Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it.

Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
digestive

late 14c., from Old French digestif (14c.), from Late Latin digestivus "pertaining to digestion," from past participle stem of Latin digerere (see digest (n.)). From 1530s as an adjective. The noun in the French form digestif is attested from 1908.

Wiktionary
digestive

a. 1 Of, relating to, or functioning in digestion. 2 That causes or promotes digestion. n. 1 A substance that aids digestion. 2 (context UK Ireland English) A digestive biscuit.

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WordNet
digestive

adj. relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion; "digestive juices"; "a digestive enzyme"; "digestive ferment"

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Digestive

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Usage examples of "digestive".

How it could be so close to certain of not killing acidophilus and other helpful bacteria in our digestive systems?

Although it has long been known that pepsin with acetic acid has the power of digesting albuminous compounds, it appeared advisable to ascertain whether acetic acid could be replaced, without the loss of digestive power, by the allied acids which are believed to occur in the secretion of Drosera, namely, propionic, butyric, or valerianic.

Curry played havoc with her digestive system and even as she ate it, enjoying the flavor, she made a mental note to take an antacid later.

Because they were cheap, she said up scraping plates, and later, in the pall fallen over the room, the dark casements and the cold hearth, the only movement a fugitive couple kissing on the silent screen and the unascribed bleat of digestive juices you know what I never understand here?

The digestive organs were double and separate as far as the lower third of the ilium, and the cecum was on the left side and single, in common with the lower bowel.

I will now give in detail my experiments on the digestive power of the secretion of Drosera, dividing the substances tried into two series, namely those which are digested more or less completely, and those which are not digested.

The digestive process apparently is rather slower than in Drosera, and this agrees with the length of time during which the leaves remain closed over digestible objects.

And Dracunculus, the legendary fiery serpent, will cut a swath from digestive tract to epidermis, erupting from the skin in a blaze of necrotic glory.

I turned the Bumbler on Festina, I could see the germs in her lungs, her stomach, her digestive tract, her bloodstream.

So when the word had reached him that Boba Fett was dead, dissolved in the digestive secretions of the Sarlacc beast, a combination of elation and frustration had welled up inside him.

Sanderson tried this substance with artificial digestive fluid, in the manner described under globulin, and found that whilst 1.

The adequate nutrition of the organic tissues demands a plentiful supply of pure blood, or the digestive apparatus will become impaired, the mental processes deranged, and the entire bony and muscular systems will lose their strength and elasticity, and be incapacitated for labor.

Not for feedingit had no digestive system, fueling itself by pumping sulfiderich water through internal lamellae dense with symbiotic carbon-fixing symbiotic bacteriabut for attack.

The most extraordinary was that, as far as he could discern, the legger had no digestive system.

She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak tea.