digestive tract
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3.4
- noun
- /dɪˈdʒɛstɪv træk/
- Specialized
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tracto digestivo
- Surely any creature that could survive for several hours in a monster's digestive tract could take care of itself.
- the human digestive tract
And you have the equivalent of a cat brain in your digestive tract.
- And you have the equivalent of a cat brain in your digestive tract.
- The microbiota that live in US vary along the length of our digestive tract.
- But in the context of gut brain signaling and the related microbiome, the gut includes the entire digestive tract.
- You have neurons, neurons in your digestive tract, neurons.
- Where you are not taxing your digestive tract.
- She's like the perfect size right now and she can't do wet food because of her digestive tract issues.
- And because of this, it starts to overgrow and of course cause trouble to our digestive tract.
- I do think that ultimately there is quite a bit of a gap in like different regions of the digestive tract.
- You know, is it is it is a, an edible by product Because it really almost is ridiculous that we've had our digestive tracts for this long in history.
Examples
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Animals that eat the pellets cannot break them down in their digestive tracts.
Academic text (1991) -
If you eat food but your digestive tract stops, you become constipated.
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It's gonna be in my digestive tract for seven years.
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How could it possibly be alive after all that time in the digestive tract?
Fiction book (1998) -
"Well, if you think about it, the human digestive tract also has a kind of spiral nature."
Fiction book (1997) -
Liver, kidney, and digestive tract damage is common among people with severe eating disorders.
Fiction book (2000) -
Research has suggested that people who ingest nitrates in water produce N-nitroso compounds in their digestive tracts.
Academic text (2000) -
Oxalate binds with calcium in the digestive tract to form an insoluble salt that cannot be absorbed.
Blog text (33) -
Many birds and crocodiles swallowed small stones, which collected in a muscular pouch in the digestive tract called the gizzard.
Fiction book (1990) -
The digestive tract plays a crucial role in breaking down food and absorbing nutrients.
Synonyms
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3.9
A tube in the body from the mouth to the anus where food is digested and waste leaves the body
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4.2
The tube in the body from the mouth to the anus that breaks down food and removes waste
A tube in the body from the mouth to the anus that carries food and breaks it down
A tube from the mouth to the anus where food is digested and waste leaves the body
A long tube that runs from the mouth to the anus and carries food during digestion
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'digestive' specifies relation to digestion and 'tract' denotes a bodily passage, so together they denote the body passage where digestion occurs. This follows a standard adjective+noun pattern and has clear parallels across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun digestive tract comes from a simple picture: digestive means 'to break down food' and tract means 'a long path'. So it names the long tube from the mouth to the body's bottom where food is broken down and waste leaves the body.