adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
digestive biscuit
digestive organs (= the stomach, intestines etc, used to digest food )
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a disorder of the digestive organs
sb’s digestive/reproductive/nervous system (= in someone’s body )
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These vitamins are essential for a healthy nervous system.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
biscuit
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Miss Devenish, obviously used to these interruptions, offered Dougal another digestive biscuit .
disorder
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Stomach ulcers and other digestive disorders are rife and there is a high mortality rate amongst veal calves despite their brief lifetime.
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This means that the horse won't get the full benefit from his feed and it may also lead to digestive disorders .
enzyme
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The water acts as a solvent for the digestive enzymes secreted into the gut.
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The release of the digestive enzymes leads to cell death.
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This implies that the antibody is recognising an epitope that is cleaved by one of the digestive enzymes pepsin or trypsin.
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The pancreas is vital for digesting food, because it produces digestive enzymes as well as the hormone insulin.
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This, in turn, explodes to release a cocktail of digestive enzymes into the cell.
juice
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Soon the mere noise of the bell would start their digestive juices running.
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They crush their victim in their pincers, but feed by injecting digestive juices and sucking the prey dry.
organ
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This model has been used to evaluate the effects of chronic hypergastrinaemia on digestive organs , including the pancreas.
problem
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He acquired a lasting scientific interest in mucus, possibly augmented by digestive problems of his own.
process
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A good diet helps the digestive processes .
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Theresa began to talk about moderation, and how too much laughing upset the digestive process , but that was funny too.
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Unfortunately, apart from the papers quoted above, little has been done to distinguish immature from adult digestive processes .
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Coffee has been blamed for increasing the pulse rate and for interfering with the efficiency of the digestive process .
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The latter are more slowly converted into blood sugar, mainly because of the digestive processes described in the previous chapter.
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At the other end of the digestive process is the sewage question.
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It was almost certainly going through the final stages of the digestive process .
system
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Their actual digestive system is that of a carnivore and so bamboo is an unlikely foodstuff to choose.
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His sandwich had turned to a rock in his digestive system .
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As the churning mass swelled within him his resilient Goblin digestive system got to work on the over-abundance of raw material.
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The mouth and digestive system are remarkably well defended against bacteria and other disease-causing, agents.
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Your mouth becomes dry as your digestive system slows.
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The carnivorous digestive system would be useless without the means of catching prey.
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The little creatures have an endless appetite, and a digestive system that turns almost anything into perfect compost.
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Olestra is just something that travels through your digestive system for the sake of the ride.
tract
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But for all the insufficiency of Rheinberger's digestive tract , this is an enjoyable disc.
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Because it dissolves easily in water, it is rapidly absorbed from the digestive tract and mixes easily with blood.
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Or it could simply be activity in the digestive tract .
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What seems to happen is that the calcium in your food combines with oxalic acid right in your digestive tract .
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This is a cleansing agent of the digestive tract and it also aids digestion.
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Dinosaurs also had a larger digestive tract that seemed to have co-evolved with the changes in Earth's flora and fauna.
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Towards the end of his life he overdosed on dry adrenalin, and scorched his digestive tract .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gastric/digestive juice(s)
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A positive correlation was observed between the gastric juice ammonium and severity of gastritis.
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Can gastric juice ascorbic acid secretion be restored by eradication of H pylori?
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Peptic ulcers are produced by the self-destruction of the gut wall by pepsin and hydrochloric acid in gastric juice .
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Soon the mere noise of the bell would start their digestive juices running.
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The gastric juice was collected by gentle manual aspiration during 135 minutes.
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The stomach is mostly empty-the whisky is lying in a shallow pool where it is now mixed with highly acidic gastric juices .
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They crush their victim in their pincers, but feed by injecting digestive juices and sucking the prey dry.
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This is expressed as concentration of tyrosine, and it occurs by dilution of the gastric juices by the food.
the digestive/reproductive/urinary etc tract
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Because it dissolves easily in water, it is rapidly absorbed from the digestive tract and mixes easily with blood.
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It is rare, however, for the urinary tract to be affected.
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Obstruction covered all mechanical obstruction to the urinary tract , excluding prostatic disease.
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Or it could simply be activity in the digestive tract .
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There may be much urging to urinate, smarting, stinging, burning along the urinary tract .
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This can have devastating consequences, and may cause long-term damage to the urinary tract .
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This is a cleansing agent of the digestive tract and it also aids digestion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the churning mass swelled within him his resilient Goblin digestive system got to work on the over-abundance of raw material.
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Because it dissolves easily in water, it is rapidly absorbed from the digestive tract and mixes easily with blood.
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Is that Troy Aikman or a koala with lower digestive difficulties looking so uncomfortable on the Dallas sideline?
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Miss Devenish, obviously used to these interruptions, offered Dougal another digestive biscuit.
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The mouth and digestive system are remarkably well defended against bacteria and other disease-causing, agents.
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The water acts as a solvent for the digestive enzymes secreted into the gut.
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Their actual digestive system is that of a carnivore and so bamboo is an unlikely foodstuff to choose.
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Theresa began to talk about moderation, and how too much laughing upset the digestive process, but that was funny too.