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Definition of Gastric mill
1. Noun. Thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gastric Mill
Literary usage of Gastric mill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of the American Lobster by Francis Hobart Herrick (1911)
"Between the two lies the gastric mill, the grinding "stones " of which consist
of a single dorsal median tooth and of two ..."
2. Morphology of Invertebrate Types by Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch (1916)
"It is divided into three regions, ihe'cardiac sac, the^gastric mill and ...
(The gastric mill in which the food is ground into a fine pulp contains a median ..."
3. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"This reflex loop may be involved in the control of the medial tooth of the gastric
mill. 5. GPR stimulation initiates or enhances rhythmic pyloric cycling. ..."
4. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1877)
"In consequence of these arrangements, and of the loose mode of articulation of
the various pieces, the gastric mill of the Crab is—as a cursory examination ..."
5. Structure and polarity of the electric motor nerve-cell in torpedoes by Ulric Dahlgren (1915)
"In the cardiac chamber many of the plates have entirely disappeared and while
the more important constituents of the gastric mill, the uro- cardiac and ..."
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