zaívací

Zaívací is an adjective used in Czech and Slovak to denote relation to digestion. The term describes anything pertaining to digestion, the digestive tract, or digestive processes. In standard spelling, the corresponding form is zažívací; zaívací appears as a variant in some texts and may be found in historical or regional usage.

In medical and biological writing, zaívací is found in compounds referring to digestive organs and functions. For example, phrases describing the zaívací trakt (the digestive tract) or zaívací procesy (digestive processes) can occur. When translating to English, zaívací is typically rendered as digestive or digestion-related.

Relation to other terms: The more common Slovak term for digestion is tráviaci (or tráviaca) and the Czech equivalent is trávící. These forms are standard in clinical language; zaívací appears mainly in older literature, regional usage, or in bilingual texts. The word helps readers recognize discussions of digestion in contexts where regional vocabulary or historic terminology is used.

See also: Tráviaci trakt, Tráviaci systém, Digestive system.