Medical Definition of ALIMENTARY CANAL. : the tubular passage that extends from mouth to anus, functions in digestion and absorption of food and elimination of residual waste, and includes the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine. the tubular passage that extends from mouth to anus, functions in digestion and absorption of food and elimination of residual waste, and includes the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine.
1 calorie restriction with adequate nutrition. 2  CRAN (R programming language), the Comprehensive R Archive Network for the R programming language. 3  Cran (unit), a measurement of uncleaned herring. 4  Cranberry, a fruit.  Cran, County Fermanagh, a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
Cron Also known as a cron job, a cron is a process or task that runs periodically on a Unix system. Some examples of crons include syncing the time and date via the Internet every ten minutes, sending an e-mail notice once a week, or backing up certain directories every month.