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Esophagus

That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach the gullet See Illust of Digestive apparatus under Digestive

Eupepsia

Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs good concoction or digestion opposed to dyspepsia

Indigestion

Discomfort due to a lack of proper digestive action a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal dyspepsia incomplete or

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Pancreas

often together with the bile into the upper part of the intestines and is a powerful aid in digestion See Illust of Digestive apparatus

Docket

A small piece of paper or parchment containing the heads of a writing a summary or digest

Exchequer in time of Edward IV. this was in his Abridgement of the Laws, being a kind of digest containing most titles of the law, arranged in alphabetical order, and comprising under each head adjudged cases, concisely

Unlawful assembly

of such assembly reasonable grounds to apprehend a breach of the peace in consequence of it. See Stephen's Digest of Criminal Law, 6th Edn., p. 55, and compare RIOT; ROUT; PUBLIC MEETING; PUBLIC ORDER.

Mishna

A collection or digest of Jewish traditions and explanations of Scripture forming the text of the Talmud

Decoct

To prepare by boiling to digest in hot or boiling water to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling to make an infusion

Code

applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form a compilation of laws by public authority a digest

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