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One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
Frank Moore Colby

Meaning of "alimentary canal" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ALIMENTARY CANAL

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ALIMENTARY CANAL

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Alimentary canal is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ALIMENTARY CANAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Human gastrointestinal tract

The human gastrointestinal tract is an organ system responsible for consuming and digesting foodstuffs, absorbing nutrients, and expelling waste. The tract is commonly defined as the stomach and intestine, and is divided into the upper and lower gastrointestinal tracts. However, by the broadest definition, the GI tract includes all structures between the mouth and the anus. On the other hand, the digestive system is a broader term that includes other structures, including the digestive organs and their accessories. The tract may also be divided into foregut, midgut, and hindgut, reflecting the embryological origin of each segment. The whole digestive tract is about nine metres long. The GI tract releases hormones to help regulate the digestive process. These hormones, including gastrin, secretin, cholecystokinin, and ghrelin, are mediated through either intracrine or autocrine mechanisms, indicating that the cells releasing these hormones are conserved structures throughout evolution.

Definition of alimentary canal in the English dictionary

The definition of alimentary canal in the dictionary is the tubular passage extending from the mouth to the anus, through which food is passed and digested.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ALIMENTARY CANAL

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alimentation
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alimony
aline
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WORDS THAT END LIKE ALIMENTARY CANAL

anal
anal canal
artisanal
banal
birth canal
canal
decanal
Grand Canal
Grand Union Canal
Guadalcanal
Haversian canal
medullary canal
Panama Canal
root canal
ruridecanal
semicircular canal
ship canal
spinal canal
subdecanal
Suez Canal

Synonyms and antonyms of alimentary canal in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «alimentary canal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ALIMENTARY CANAL

Find out the translation of alimentary canal to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of alimentary canal from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «alimentary canal» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

消化道
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

canal alimentario
570 millions of speakers

English

alimentary canal
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आहार नली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

القناة الهضمية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

желудочно-кишечного тракта
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

canal alimentar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

খাদ্যনালী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tube digestif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Saluran pencernaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verdauungskanal
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

消化管
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

소화관
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kanal alergi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nguồn dinh dưỡng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உணவுக்குழாய்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोषक आहार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sindirim borusu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

canale alimentare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przewód pokarmowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

шлунково - кишкового тракту
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

canal alimentar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πεπτικού σωλήνα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spysverteringskanaal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

matsmältningskanalen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fordøyelsessystemet kanalen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of alimentary canal

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ALIMENTARY CANAL»

The term «alimentary canal» is regularly used and occupies the 65.144 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ALIMENTARY CANAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about alimentary canal

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QUOTES WITH «ALIMENTARY CANAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word alimentary canal.
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Frank Moore Colby
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALIMENTARY CANAL»

Discover the use of alimentary canal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to alimentary canal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
In this international bestseller, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs, beer and pet-food tasters, stomach slugs, potato crisp engineers, enema exorcists, rectum-examining prison guards, competitive hot dog eaters, Elvis' doctor, ...
Mary Roach, 2013
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. “America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an ...
Mary Roach, 2013
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Human Nutrition
3 Digestion: alimentary canal, digestion and absorption 3.1 The necessity for digestion Food needs to be digested so that relatively simple compounds are released from complex polymers for two main reasons. These are so that the body can ...
Ann Walker, 1990
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Diseases of Horses - The Respiratory Organs and the ...
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.
A. H. Baker, 2011
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Alimentary Canal of the Mosquito;
There are no illustrations or an index. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
Milett T. Thompson, 2009
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The Roentgen Diagnosis of Diseases of the Alimentary Canal
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Russell Daniel Carman, 2010
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The Sensibility of the Alimentary Canal
There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
Arthur Frederick Hurst, 2010
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The Sensations of the Alimentary Canal
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed.
Edwin Garrigues Boring, 2012
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The Alimentary Canal of the Paper Wasp Polistes Variatus
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Annie Lee Duncan, 2012
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The Action of Anthelmintics on Parasites Located Outside of ...
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Ransom Brayton Howard, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALIMENTARY CANAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term alimentary canal is used in the context of the following news items.
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Nothing to declare but their genius
... trying to talk his way through customs with a condom full of illegal substances in his alimentary canal, and a lot like the headmaster the whole ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
2
High fiber, low risks of asthma
... evidence that when a mother tends to eat meals which are enriched with fiber, the bacteria in her alimentary canal undergo certain changes. «Gazette Tribune, Jun 15»
3
6 quirky coloring books for adults
... fanciful colors as you explore the human body inside and out, with detailed drawings of the chambers of the heart, the alimentary canal, etc. «azcentral.com, Jun 15»
4
At the National Gallery, Caillebotte's intersection with greatness
The painter is giving us the high and low of Paris, the in and out, and both ends of an enormous, urban alimentary canal. But perhaps this, too: ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
5
Face of Mysterious Sea Creature Hallucigenia
... the presence of this feature as meaning that the creature might have used it to suck up food and pushed it down its alimentary canal. «Island Crisis News, Jun 15»
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There's no need to let a small thing ruin a good meal
Sometimes the respiratory system responds suddenly to a tickle in the nose or throat, or the terminal end of the alimentary canal releases a ... «Albany Times Union, Jun 15»
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The Offal-Eater's Handbook: Untangling the Myths of Organ Meats
... the tongue furnishes our sense of taste, assists in producing speech, and waves chewed food through on its way down the alimentary canal. «Eater, Jun 15»
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Leaving Cert Biology: Unusual questions make it difficult
Question 11 involved labelling a diagram of the human alimentary canal. “This was a very old-fashioned question for a modern biology paper,” ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
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Paperback book reviews: The Lives of Girls and Women by Alice …
Enders's straightforward, mildly jokey tone is endearing, although I found Mary Roach's recent Gulp: Adventures in the Alimentary Canal a more ... «The Independent, May 15»
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Same Old Story: When a great actor turns into a set of predictable …
... Bengalis of a certain generation: exasperating, annoying, opinionated, obsessed with their alimentary canal and the excretions thereof. «The Indian Express, May 15»

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