| NOUN | body | digestive juice, digestive fluid | secretions that aid digestion |
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| Meaning | secretions that aid digestion. | |
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| Synonym | digestive fluid | |
| Part of | digestive system, gastrointestinal system, systema alimentarium, systema digestorium | The system that makes food absorbable into the body |
| Narrower | bile, gall | A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder |
| gastric juice, gastric acid | digestive secretions of the stomach glands consisting chiefly of hydrochloric acid and mucin and the enzymes pepsin and rennin and lipase | |
| pancreatic juice | A fluid secreted into the duodenum by the pancreas | |
| Broader | juice, succus | Any of several liquids / liquids of the body |
| Spanish | jugo digestivo | |
| Catalan | àcid gàstric, suc digestiu | |
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