Word Meanings - ENTERON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal.

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• 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.