The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Usage examples of "digestive apparatus".
It cuts down on the action of the muscles of the alimentary canal and on the blood vessels feeding the digestive apparatus and the skin because digestion can wait and the blood is needed elsewhere.
Obviously Lila had had no digestive apparatus, no circulatory system, and no respiratory system.
Boamund felt a tiny twinge of panic, deep down inside his digestive apparatus.
Obviously Lila had had no digestive apparatus, no circulatory sys -- tem, and no respiratory system.
A severe beating would have to be given, not in anger, because that would disturb the digestive apparatus, but silently and efficiently, as a chemist would beat up the white of an egg in preparation for a minor analysis.
Ramses could consume enormous quantities of sweets without the slightest inconvenience to his appetite or digestive apparatus.
And the history of his people testified to the fact that Apaches possessed the toughest of digestive apparatus.