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Definition of Abomasus
1. abomasum [n -MASI] - See also: abomasum
Medical Definition of Abomasus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Abomasus
Literary usage of Abomasus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Carl Gegenbaur (1878)
"The last portion, which is formed from the pyloric part, is attached to this; it
forms the abomasus, in the mucous membrane of which the rennet glands are ..."
2. The Edinburgh Literary Journal; Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1830)
"The latter, because the contraction marking the separation between the echinus
and the abomasus in the lama was not so decided as in the camel, ..."
3. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1870)
"The folds of the psalterium correspond with Pallas's description, as do the
plications of the abomasus. The same authority mentions ..."
4. Grundriss der vergleichenden Anatomie der Wirbelthiere: Für Studirende bearb by Robert Wiedersheim (1893)
"B. vier, die man als Rumen, Reticulum, Omas u s1) und abomasus bezeichnet.
Die beiden ersteren dienen nur als einfache Behälter, aus welchen die Nahrung ..."
5. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1868)
"The vascular and finely villous lining of the abomasus is usually thrown into
large oblique wavy rugae; which subside toward the pylorus. ..."
6. Comparative Zoology: Structural and Systematic, for Use in Schools and Colleges by James Orton, Edward Asahel Birge (1883)
"... and thence it passes into the true stomach (abomasus), from which, in the
calf, the rennet is procured for curdling milk in the manufacture of cheese. ..."
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