Digestive

Definition of Digestive

Di`gest´ive

a.

1.

Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.

Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be.

- B. Jonson.

Digestive apparatus
the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it.

Digestive salt
the chloride of potassium.

n.

1.

That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.

That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself.

- Blackw. Mag.

2.

(Med.) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration.

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