GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gastrointestinal tract mean? 

• GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT (noun)
  The noun GASTROINTESTINAL 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: GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GASTROINTESTINAL 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 ("gastrointestinal 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 "gastrointestinal 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 "gastrointestinal tract"):

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

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

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

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes mucin-5AC protein, is involved in the formation of the mucosa of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts.

(MUC5AC wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Their fundamental action is to promote epithelial-cell restitution within the gastrointestinal tract.

(Mucosal Healing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the gastrointestinal tract.

(Mucositis, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in the protection of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts.

(MUC5AC Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

The vast majority are carcinomas usually arising from the breast, lung, and gastrointestinal tract.

(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Pituitary Gland, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-metastasizing neoplasm that arises from the ovary and is characterized by the presence of neoplastic epithelium that resembles the epithelium of the endocervix or gastrointestinal tract.

(Benign Ovarian Mucinous Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

This is an extragastrointestinal tumor, meaning that it does not arise directly from the gastrointestinal tract.

(Mesenteric Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include metastatic carcinomas from the gastrointestinal tract, metastatic melanomas, and renal cell carcinomas.

(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Pancreas, NCI Thesaurus)

Typically, mantle cell lymphomas involving the gastrointestinal tract give rise to multifocal lymphomatous polyposis.

(Multifocal Lymphomatous Polyposis, NCI Thesaurus)

A condition in which multiple adenomas develop in the gastrointestinal tract.

(Multiple Adenomatous Polyps, NCI Thesaurus)