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Pepsin

with dilute hydrochloric acid 02 per cent approximately and the two together constitute the active portion of the digestive fluid It degrades proteins to proteoses and peptides and is notable for having a very low pH optimum

Enterocoeligle

A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract distinguished from a schizocoeligle which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo

Pancreas

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

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Maintain

a certain degree of heat in a furnace to maintain a fence or a railroad to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach to maintain the fertility of soil to maintain present reputation

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

Inanition

specifically exhaustion from lack of food either from partial or complete starvation or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus producing the same result

Gastrovascular

Having the structure or performing the functions both of digestive and circulatory organs as the gastrovascular cavity of coeliglenterates

Eupepsia

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

Entertainment

pleasureable occupation of the sense, or that which furnishes it, as dancing, sports, or music. Likewise, in Reader's Digest Family Word Finder at p. 264, 'entertainment' has been defined thus: Entertainment amusement, diversion, distraction, recreation, fun, play,

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

father, unless he is leading a vicious life [see Re Goldsworthy, (1875) 2 QBD 75]; and see Mew's Digest, vol. v., tit. 'Crown Office (Habeas Corpus).' By the (English) Habeas Corpus Act, 1862 (25 & 26 Vict.

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