DIGESTIVE TUBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does digestive tube mean? 

• DIGESTIVE TUBE (noun)
  The noun DIGESTIVE TUBE 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: DIGESTIVE TUBE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIGESTIVE TUBE (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 ("digestive tube" 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 "digestive tube"):

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 "digestive tube"):

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

Holonyms ("digestive tube" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

The main section of the digestive tube that connects the esophagus to the small intestine.The body proper excludes the upper and lower sections of the fundus and pyloric portion respectively.

(Body of Stomach, NCI Thesaurus)