ALIMENTARY TRACT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alimentary tract mean? 

• ALIMENTARY TRACT (noun)
  The noun ALIMENTARY TRACT has 1 sense:

1. tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about 8.3 meters from mouth to anus; functions in digestion and elimination

  Familiarity information: ALIMENTARY TRACT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALIMENTARY TRACT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about 8.3 meters from mouth to anus; functions in digestion and elimination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

alimentary canal; alimentary tract; digestive tract; digestive tube; gastrointestinal tract; GI tract

Hypernyms ("alimentary tract" is a kind of...):

canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)

Meronyms (parts of "alimentary tract"):

breadbasket; stomach; tum; tummy (an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion)

esophagus; gorge; gullet; oesophagus (the passage between the pharynx and the stomach)

small intestine (the longest part of the alimentary canal; where digestion is completed)

large intestine (beginning with the cecum and ending with the rectum; includes the cecum and the colon and the rectum; extracts moisture from food residues which are later excreted as feces)

pharynx; throat (the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "alimentary tract"):

enteron (the alimentary canal (especially of an embryo or a coelenterate))

Holonyms ("alimentary tract" is a part of...):

digestive system; gastrointestinal system; systema alimentarium; systema digestorium (the system that makes food absorbable into the body)

 Context examples 

Non-encapsulated accumulations of lymphoid tissue in the alimentary tract that form a secretory immune system containing cells committed to IgA or IgE synthesis; include tonsils, Peyer's patches, lamina propria, and appendix.

(Murine Gut Associated Lymphoid Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

A taxonomic family of bacterium, in the phylum Bacteroidetes, which is usually found in the mucous membranes and alimentary tract of mammals.

(Bacteroidaceae, NCI Thesaurus)

Ulcer that occurs in those portions of the alimentary tract which come into contact with gastric juice containing pepsin and acid.

(Peptic Ulcer, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Non-encapsulated accumulations of lymphoid tissue in the alimentary tract that form a secretory immune system containing cells committed to IgA or IgE synthesis; It includes Peyer's patches and the lymphoid tissue which is present throughout the gastrointestinal mucosa.

(Gut-Associated Lymphoid Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)