digestive tract

Questions about digestive tract

What does digestive tract mean?

digestive tract means "tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about 8.3 meters from mouth to anus; functions in digestion and elimination".

What is another word for digestive tract?

Close synonyms include alimentary canal, alimentary tract, digestive tube, gastrointestinal tract, GI tract. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is digestive tract a common word?

digestive tract is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.