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digestive juice

n. secretions that aid digestion [syn: digestive fluid]

Usage examples of "digestive juice".

It also innervates the pancreas and helps control that organ's rate of secretion of digestive juice (though the main job of regulating pancreatic secretion, as I explained in Chapter i, rests with secretin).

The whale's belly image seemed fitting because she had the creepy feeling that the pipe was really a stomach and that the rushing water was digestive juice, and that already her tennis shoes and the legs of her jeans were dissolving in that corrosive flood.

A drop of digestive juice fell from the ancestor's open jaw as the reptilian head was poised ready for engulfing.

He had been violently sick but his stomach had been so empty that there was hardly anything to be brought up but a thin, acid digestive juice.

That execrable liquid, which doubtless served as both saliva and digestive juice, had been eating the adamantine-tempered metal like acid, and we had not escaped any too soon.