Word Meanings - ENTERON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal.
Related words: (words related to ENTERON)
- CANAL
A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock. - WHOLENESS
The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness. - WHOLE-HOOFED
Having an undivided hoof, as the horse. - CANALICULATE; CANALICULATED
Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms. - CANALIZATION
Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. - WHOLESALE
Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail. By wholesale, in the mass; in large quantities; without distinction or discrimination. Some, from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by - WHOLE-SOULED
Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted. - ALIMENTARY
Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the - ENTERIC
Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal; intestinal. Enteric fever , typhoid fever. - CANALICULUS
A minute canal. - CANAL COAL
See COAL - WHOLESOME
1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary. Wholesome thirst and appetite. Milton. From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food. A Smith. 2. Contributing to the health of the - WHOLE
healthy; akin to OFries. & OS. h, D. heel, G. heil, Icel. heill, Sw. hel whole, Dan. heel, Goth. hails well, sound, OIr. c augury. Cf. 1. Containing the total amount, number, etc.; comprising all the parts; free from deficiency; all; total; entire; - WHOLE-LENGTH
Representing the whole figure; -- said of a picture or statue. -- n. - DECANAL
Pertaining to a dean or deanery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side - DYSENTERIC; DYSENTERICAL
Of or pertaining to dysentery; having dysentery; as, a dysenteric patient. "Dysenteric symptoms." Copland. - UNWHOLE
Not whole; unsound. - MESENTERIC
Pertaining to a mesentery; mesaraic. - LIENTERIC
Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, a lientery. -- n. - SUBDECANAL
Of or pertaining to a subdean or subdeanery. - NEURENTERIC
Of or pertaining to both the neuron and the enteron; as, the neurenteric canal, which, in embroys of many vertebrates, connects the medullary tube and the primitive intestine. See Illust. of Ectoderm. - OMPHALOMESENTERIC
Of or pertaining to the umbilicus and mesentery; omphalomesaraic; as, the omphalomesenteric arteries and veins of a fetus. - INTERMESENTERIC
Within the mesentery; as, the intermesenteric, or aortic, plexus.