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Definition of Digestive juice
1. Noun. Secretions that aid digestion.
Group relationships: Digestive System, Gastrointestinal System, Systema Alimentarium, Systema Digestorium
Generic synonyms: Juice, Succus
Specialized synonyms: Gastric Acid, Gastric Juice, Pancreatic Juice, Bile, Gall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digestive Juice
Literary usage of Digestive juice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theory and practice of infant feeding: With Notes on Development by Henry Dwight Chapin, Herbert William Conn (1909)
"In the lower forms of animal life, as the jelly fish, which folds itself around
its food, it is found that if animal food is taken, a digestive juice that ..."
2. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1889)
"The digestive juice, whatever be its source, contains either an acid substance
or an alkaline one, and in addition a substance termed an unorganised ferment ..."
3. Healthy Living by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, Walter Camp (1920)
"To the second test tube add some of the digestive juice extracted from the stomach
of a calf.1 After the tubes have stood for half an hour in a warm place, ..."
4. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"The pancreatic juice, on the other hand, is a real digestive juice, and the
starches and sugars and fats, as well as the nitrogenous foods, ..."
5. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"It is obvious that the aggregation of the hairs causes a more complete surrounding
of the insect with jelly, increases the amount of digestive juice brought ..."
6. Text book of chemistry for nurses and students of home economics by Annie Louise Macleod (1920)
"This motion, besides mixing the food with the digestive juice forces it into ...
These substances are insoluble and impervious to the digestive juice of ..."
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