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/daɪdʒˈɛstɪv/
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[ US /daɪˈdʒɛstɪv/ ]
[ US /daɪˈdʒɛstɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion
a digestive enzyme
digestive juices
digestive juices
digestive ferment
NOUN
- any substance that promotes digestion
How To Use digestive In A Sentence
- Too rich a diet will disorder his digestive.
- Instead, eat food first, then drink afterwards for optimal health and digestive tract function.
- The mouth is typically the only opening to the digestive tract, they use the same opening to both ingest food and egest waste. Platyhelminthes
- Yet the potential role of friendly bacteria in promoting digestive health is becoming increasingly unassailable. Times, Sunday Times
- Examples are the digestive enzymes trypsin and chymotrypsin, which only have enzymatic activity after the protein chain is cut and fragments of the protein removed.
- Put the digestive biscuits in a food processor and blitz into fine crumbs. The Sun
- One's an antiacid and one controls where the acid is in the digestive system. Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry
- Gastroenterology: Medical specialty dealing with digestion and the digestive system.
- Heal a digestive tract after illness or overindulgence with glutamine or a course of probiotics. Times, Sunday Times
- The splanchnopleure, which lies on the endoblast, takes part in the formation of the wall of the digestive tube.