digestive tract

English

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abdomen

1= oesophagus or esophagus 2= liver 3= duodenum 4= stomach 5= small intestine 6= caecum or cecum 7= colon 8= appendix 9= rectum 10= anus

Noun

digestive tract (plural digestive tracts)

1. System of organs within multicellular animals which takes in food, digests it to extract energy and nutrients, and expels the remaining waste.

Synonyms

• GI tract
• gastrointestinal tract
• gut
• alimentary canal

Translations

system of organs within multicellular animals which takes in food

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 消化道 (cmn) (xiāohuàdào), 消化系統 (cmn), 消化系统 (cmn) (xāohuà xìtǒng)

• Czech: trávicí trakt m, zažívací trakt m, gastrointestinální trakt (cs) m
• Finnish: ruoansulatuskanava (fi)
• French: tube digestif (fr) m
• German: Verdauungstrakt (de) m
• Irish: canáil an bhia (ga) f

• Italian: apparato digerente m
• Japanese: 消化管 (ja) (しょうかかん, shōkakan)
• Latin: stomachus (la) m
• Russian: пищеварительный тракт (ru) (piščevarítelʹnyj trakt) m, кишечник (ru) (kišéčnik) m
• Spanish: tubo digestivo (es) m, pasaje digestivo (es) m
• Thai: ระบบย่อยอาหาร (rá-bòp yôi aa-hăan)