NOUN
- tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about 8.3 meters from mouth to anus; functions in digestion and elimination
How To Use alimentary tract In A Sentence
- While some of these patients may require parenteral nutrition, use of the alimentary tract with tube feeding is cheaper and has less adverse effects.
- Though these organisms may also be found as normal flora of alimentary tract, data supporting this contention are lacking.
- They are based on the idea that enzymes are able to pass through alimentary tract without losing their natural activity.
- Objective: To observe the therapeutic efficacy of famotidine combined with vitamin K1 on neonatal alimentary tract hemorrhage.
- Similarly, at the upper end of the alimentary tract, rigid instruments were used for the examination of the oesophagus and for the stomach, the earliest gastroscopes were introduced in Germany during the 1930s.
- In large part, moving food along the alimentary tract is a matter of smooth muscle functioning, and Pavlov decided to investigate the byssus retractor, the smooth muscle that Mytilus edulis, the common mussel, uses to close its shell. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
- The size of the tube of Eodiorygma is only slightly greater than that of the feeding stage of Symbion, which has a U-shaped alimentary tract, tentaculate apparatus, and larval ability to settle on live tissue.
- An alimentary tract could form the basis of further evolution, then the inevitable development of a head might be plausible. A Good Saturday Evening Flick
- It distends to accommodate any material that passes through the epiglottis, and it is the most muscular portion of the alimentary tract.
- Among the alimentary tract lesions for which HIV may play a direct pathogenic role are idiopathic ulcers of the esophagus and rectum.
