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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pan·cre·as n.  Anat. The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Di·gest·ive a.  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.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 E·soph·a·gus n.  Anat. That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive. [Written also œsophagus.]