Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the meso-gastrium; umbilical, as a region of the abdomen; mesenteric with reference to the stomach or to the mesogaster.
  • In Crustacea, situated. in the middle of the gastric lobe of the carapace: specifically applied to a median subdivision of that lobe, the mesogastric lobe. See cut, under Brachyura.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the middle region of the abdomen, or of the stomach.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the mesogaster.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the middle gastric lobe of the carapace of a crab.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to the middle region of the abdomen, or of the stomach.
  • adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to the mesogaster.
  • adjective zoology Of or pertaining to the middle gastric lobe of the carapace of a crab.

Etymologies

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meso- +‎ gastric

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