What's the difference between breadbasket and stomach?

Breadbasket


Definition:

  • (n.) The stomach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Egypt's breadbasket is littered with the remnants of old colonisers, from the Romans to the Germans, and today its 50 million inhabitants jostle for space among the crumbling forts and cemeteries of those who sought to subjugate them in the past.
  • (2) And the consequences have been there for all to see: an economic meltdown; a descent from breadbasket to a basket case; a rollback in civil liberties.
  • (3) Less than a week later, photographs from Camp Breadbasket showed British soldiers standing on Iraqis enmeshed in netting, forcing them to simulate oral and anal sex, feigning to punch them in the head and parading them around on forklift trucks.
  • (4) Living by a motto handed down from Captain Beefheart – “Hit it to hell in the breadbasket and fingerfuck the devil” – they really play every note as if it were their last.
  • (5) Zimbabwe was once southern Africa's breadbasket, but food production started declining in 2000, following the launch of President Mugabe's controversial "fast-track" land reform programme, during which land owned by white farmers was seized.
  • (6) Zimbabwe used to be southern Africa's breadbasket but a combination of poor rainfalls and political turmoil has reduced output dramatically.
  • (7) But the truth is that the atrocities committed in Camp Breadbasket were not aberrant but as consistent with Britain's colonial tradition and invasion of Iraq as Brown's statements are with our post-colonial amnesia.
  • (8) The hosts of Le Panier, or The Breadbasket, talkshow were speaking when when attackers with knives burst in.
  • (9) One of the worst-affected districts is Batticaloa, within Sri Lanka's breadbasket region in the east of the country, where up to 80% of the rice crop is believed to have been destroyed by the rains.
  • (10) The "breadbasket of Africa" became dependent on foreign aid to feed its masses.
  • (11) Jackson was mentored by Martin Luther King and has had a hand in many civil rights organisations over the past half-century, including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Operation Breadbasket during the 1960s, the same decade in which he became an ordained minister.
  • (12) Over the next few years, Jackson became a close, if ambitious and polarising, member of King’s circle, eventually tasked with running operations for the SCLC in Chicago and then running its national economic development arm, Operation Breadbasket.
  • (13) Lofa – the county second hardest hit by the epidemic – is our breadbasket and a major source of our food,” he said.

Stomach


Definition:

  • (n.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.
  • (n.) The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.
  • (n.) Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.
  • (n.) Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.
  • (n.) Pride; haughtiness; arrogance.
  • (v. t.) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
  • (v. t.) To bear without repugnance; to brook.
  • (v. i.) To be angry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the same time the duodenum can be isolated from the stomach and maintained under constant stimulus by a continual infusion at regulated pressure, volume and temperature into the distal cannula.
  • (2) This suggests that a physiological mechanism exists which can increase the barrier pressure to gastrooesophageal reflux during periods of active secretion of the stomach, as occurs in digestion.
  • (3) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
  • (4) The following possible explanations were discussed: a) the tested psychotropic drugs block prostaglandin receptors in the stomach; b) the test substances react with prostaglandin in the nutritive solution; c) the substances stimulate metabolic processes in the stomach wall that break down prostaglandin.
  • (5) It was considered worthwhile to report this case due to the problems which arose concerning the choice of a thoracic rather than abdominal route owing to the impossibility of associating cardiomyotomy with anti-reflux plastica surgery because of the reduced dimensions of the stomach.
  • (6) Gastric reservoir reduction, wrapping the stomach with an inert fabric, is one such procedure.
  • (7) Sialosyl-Tn antigen expression also was observed in intestinal metaplasia of the stomach and in transitional mucosa adjacent to the colorectal carcinoma, which are considered to be cancer-related lesions.
  • (8) The carcinoma and lymphoma of the stomach were both small, and the depth of invasion was localized to the mucosa and submucosa, respectively.
  • (9) Mean run time and total ST time were faster with CE (by 1.4 and 1.2 min) although not significantly different (P less than 0.06 and P less than 0.10) from P. Subjects reported no significant difference in nausea, fullness, or stomach upset with CE compared to P. General physiological responses were similar for each drink during 2 h of multi-modal exercise in the heat; however, blood glucose, carbohydrate utilization, and exercise intensity at the end of a ST may be increased with CE fluid replacement.
  • (10) G-17-I infusion, the stomach was continuously infused with isotonic saline.
  • (11) The CL was also longer in the duodenum, whereas the CD was shortened, indicating a reduction of the wave movements from the stomach antrum to the duodenum in the ranitidine periods.
  • (12) A great deal of information about the spiral bacteria of the stomach has accumulated in the past 5 years.
  • (13) A case is presented with radiographically demonstrated angioedema in the stomach and small bowel accompanied by allergic rhinitis, which was apparently an allergic response to the barium sulfate suspension.
  • (14) Therefore, we tested the ability of ultrasound imaging to identify noninvasively the stomach contents of laboring and nonlaboring pregnant volunteers.
  • (15) Of the strains tested, only the germ-free ND 1 mouse appeared to be susceptible to infection, and this was confined to the stomach mucosa; lesions contained large numbers of hyphal and mycelial forms with blastospores.
  • (16) I am absolutely sick to the stomach that this iconic Australian news agency would attack the navy in the way that it has,” he said.
  • (17) Pathogenic Mycobacterium ulcerans were recovered from the stool of anole lizards up to 11 days after inoculation by stomach tube.
  • (18) In adenocarcinoma of the distal esophagus and stomach, EUS prediction of stages T1 to T3 correlated well with the actual rate of R0 resection.
  • (19) These results suggest that formaldehyde has tumor-promoting activity in carcinogenesis in the glandular stomach.
  • (20) One hundred and two rats were subjected to one of following three surgical procedures: Antiperistaltic duodenogastric reflux (ADGR) was made for duodenal juice to reflux through the pylorus into the stomach.

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