- 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.
- 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.