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alimentary system

noun

Medical Definition of ALIMENTARY SYSTEM

:  the organ system devoted to the ingestion, digestion, and assimilation of food and the discharge of residual wastes and consisting of the alimentary canal and those glands or parts of complex glands that secrete digestive enzymes

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