1. digestive - Noun
2. digestive - Adjective
Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.
That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.
A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration.
A tonic.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of remarkable Christian forbearance among men - were it not for a mawkish humanitarianism, coupled with imperfect digestive powers, we should devour our young, as Nature intended. Ambrose Bierce
As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal. Ivan Pavlov
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions. Jerome K. Jerome
But how much are the delicate convolutions of the brain influenced by the digestive apparatus? When the mal de mere seizes me I, Hercule Poirot, am a creature with no grey cells, no order, no method - a mere member of the human race somewhere below average intelligence! Agatha Christie
As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide. Richard Matheson
Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts. Ivan Pavlov