Tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about 8.3 meters from mouth to anus; functions in digestion and elimination.
1Surgeons spent over three hours mending his wounded stomach and digestive tube.
2Sausage casings were traditionally various parts of the animal digestive tube.
3The dark, sometimes gritty "vein" along the tail muscle is actually the end of the digestive tube.
4The work of digestion is chiefly done in the digestive tube or canal, which is about thirty feet in length.
5Was I not justified in asserting that the unity of the animal plan is to be found in the digestive tube?
6The digestive tube is quite straight, without any perceptible swelling, and does not even go the whole length of the body.
7You remember, perhaps, the little republic talked about when we first entered the digestive tube; you have now the explanation of it.
8What is excellent in the digestive tubes would be appalling in the arteries.
9"But you must remember the definition of Cabanis: 'Man is a digestive tube.' I imagine now...."
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