Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The fourth division of the stomach in ruminant animals, such as cows, sheep, and deer, in which digestion takes place.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The fourth or true stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the omasum or third stomach, and opening through the pylorus into the duodenum. See cut under ruminant.
Wiktionary
- n. anatomy The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach, the omasum.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach
omasum . See ruminantia.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place
Etymologies
- New Latin, from Latin ab ("away from") + omāsum ("tripe of a bullock") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The fourth compartment, known as the abomasum, is the deer's "true" stomach, and it functions in a very similar manner to yours.”
“ The fourth stomach, the abomasum, is most similar to the human stomach.”
“The fourth stomach, the abomasum, is most similar to the human stomach.”
“Mostly I see seconday ketosis due to digestive problems, such as a displaced abomasum and the cow simply has no desire to eat.”
“This is best described as sub-tripe; perhaps originating from the abomasum or duodenum regions.”
“The Defiled Warrior is best described as sub-tripe; perhaps originating from the abomasum or duodenum regions.”
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“The Curdling Specialist Traditional rennet is made from the fourth stomach or abomasum of a milk-fed calf less than 30 days old, before chymosin is replaced by other protein-digesting enzymes.”
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“Yes, Mr. Stott, it's the tinkling sound you hear in displacement of the abomasum.”
Every living thing
“As noted, the stomach consists of three functional compartments: the rumen, the reticulum, and the abomasum.”
“The four compartments into which it is divided are the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum or true stomach.”
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Rare Words - A
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 426 more...
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A to abominator (Chambers)
aa gets over 40 hits
aardvark 49 hits
abbatoir 103 hits
abjure 138 hitsA, A 1, aa, A-line, A-list, A-lister, A-road, A-side, from A to B, from A to Z, A-bomb, A-effect and 254 more...
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phrontistery - a
from phrontistery.info
aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abasia, abask, abb, abba, abbatial, abra and 1214 more...
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Can You Stomach This?
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stomach, gastric, sphincter, fundus, omentum, pylorus, cardia, chyme, mesogastrium, peristalsis, rugae, curvature and 12 more...
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Because I like them: A -- B
abacinate, aberdevine, ablepsy, abuccinate, acarology, acipenserine, abactor, adamantine, addressin, aeoline, ahimsa, agelast and 151 more...
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The word collector
My collection of words that are intriguing, but don't fit my other lists.
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