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Shak. Stomach staggers (Far.), distention of the stomach with food or gas, resulting in indigestion, frequently in death.

re alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient.

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.

s insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort.

the combined healty action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.

an those manifested by a single organ; as, the capillary system, the muscular system, the digestive system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity.

An obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation.

hartshorn, roots of various plants, flowers, juices of plants, wines, etc., distilled or digested with Venice treacle. It was formerly regarded as a medicine of great virtue. Nares. Venice treacle. (Old Med.) Same as Theriac, 1.

Relating to trypsin or to its action; produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion.

The peptone formed by pancreatic digestion; -- so called because it is formed through the agency of the ferment trypsin.

e quantity from the decomposition of proteid matter by various means, -- as by pancreatic digestion, by putrefaction as of cheese, by the action of boiling acids, etc. Chemically, it consists of oxyphenol and amidopropionic acid, and by decomposition yields oxybenzoic acid, or some other benzol derivative. [Written als…

iety; to undergothe operation of amputation; food in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion. Certain to undergo like doom. Milton.

ndy; flatulent. Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable is the most easily digested. Arbuthnot.

The stomach. [Obs.] Whether I will or not, while I live, my heart beats, and my ventricle digests what is in it. Sir M. Hale.

s, sometimes lodge in it, causing serious, or even fatal, inflammation. See Illust. under Digestion.

nd followed by a response from the people. The psalms were in number fifteen, . . . being digested into versicles. Strype.

actions of the body on which life is directly dependent, as the circulation of the blood, digestion, etc. -- Vital principle, an immaterial force, to which the functions peculiar to living beings are ascribed. -- Vital statistics, statistics respecting the duration of life, and the circumstances affecting its duratio…

ctious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.

nol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the poplar and other white woods, and so softened by digestion with a hot solution of alkali that it can be formed into sheet paper, etc. It is now produced on an immense scale. -- Wood quail (Zoöl.), any one of several species of East Indian crested quails belonging to Rollulus an…

droidea, and Bryozoa; -- sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed.