(n.) The third division of the stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies, and Illust. under Ruminant.
Example Sentences:
(1) One square centimetre samples were taken from equivalent areas in each case of the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum of 38 embalmed Karakul lambs.
(2) One square centimetre samples were taken from analogous areas of the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum of 38 embalmed Karakul lambs.
(3) The effects of starvation on fluid balance seem to become as severe in goats as in monogastric species despite food reservoirs in the reticulo-rumen and omasum at the onset of food deprivation.
(4) Although protozoan concentrations in omasal contents were approximately 80% lower than those in ruminal contents, the omasum harbored relatively high numbers of ciliated protozoa.
(5) The characteristic cyclic motility of the omasum was slightly reduced in sheep fasted for 48 hr and in those fed on pelleted food, and it persisted after vagotomy.3.
(6) The omasum has more than 70 laminae which are papillated on the reticular end.
(7) In vitro pentagastrin (10(-18) to 10(-4) M) stimulated quiescent and intrinsically active longitudinal and circular muscles of the body of the omasum and the body and antrum of the abomasum and potentiated contractile responses of antral muscle to electrical stimulation of intramural cholinergic nerves.
(8) It had no effect upon digesta-free weight of the rumen and omasum but consistently decreased the weight of all post-ruminal segments of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
(9) The weight of the omasum and area of the internal laminae appeared to be smaller in Brahman cattle than the buffalo and British cattle.
(10) The Mg infused to either the abomasum or omasum was completely recovered at the duodenum, indicating a lack of net absorption of Mg from these stomach compartments.
(11) Eating was associated with an increase in flow of the fluid and dry matter fractions of digesta passing from the omasum but efflux was unaffected by rumination.
(12) The omasum and reticulum presented desquamation of the cutaneous mucosal membrane, and the abomasum--necrotic foci, edema, and leukocyte infiltrations.
(13) Cell bodies of VIP-IR nerves decreased in number through the omasum, reticulo-omasal orifice, and omasal pillar.
(14) Samples of the following parts of the gastrointestinal tract were collected from 20 slaughter cattle: - oesophagus, reticulum, omasum, rumen, abomasum, duodenum, jejunum, ileum, colon (beginning and end).
(15) Specimens were obtained from the lung, omasum and Peyer's patches of the ileum and corresponding lymph nodes.
(16) Four ruminating bull calves were provided with cannulas in the rumen and abomasum and a sleeve sutured at the omosal-abomasal orifice that permitted digesta flowing from the omasum to be diverted and collected.
(17) Calves were slaughtered, and samples of the contents of the reticulo-rumen, omasum, abomasum, small intestine, cecum, and large intestine were analyzed for chromic oxide, copper, and manganese.
(18) The data concerning the transport of sodium and chloride in the omasum are very limited.
(19) The curves were analysed on the assumption that the stomach of the sheep could be represented as two mixing compartments (reticulo-rumen and abomasum) and a time delay (omasum).
(20) The following activities of GDH and GS were found out in trials with lambs at the age of 10, 20, 30, 40 and 90 days, as to the different parts of digestive tract: in the tissues of rumen, omasum, reticulum, spleen, duodenum, jejunum, ileum, int.
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.