Digestive Juice Crossword Clue

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- Digestive juice
- Fluid secreted by the liver
- Irritability
- A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.
- Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile.
- A boil.

- The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.

- One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.

- Bear belly
- Body organ
- Body part
- Put up with
- An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.
- The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.
- Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.

- Gland behind the stomach
- Large gland behind the stomach
- The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.

- An unorganized proteolytic ferment or enzyme contained in the secretory glands of the stomach. In the gastric juice it is united with dilute hydrochloric acid (0.2 per cent, approximately) and the two together constitute the active portion of the digestive fluid. It is the active agent in the gastric juice of all animals.

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