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Definition of Second stomach

1. Noun. The second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Second Stomach

Literary usage of Second stomach

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Literary Magazine, and American Register by Charles Brockden Brown (1808)
"second stomach eould be performed. To this Mr. Hunter did not give credit, but considered the second stomach of the camel to correspond in its use with that ..."

2. American Agriculturist (1846)
"Bourgelat denied the existence of the pellet, and Daubenton says it is formed by the second stomach. M. Flourens ascertained, beyond all question, ..."

3. The American Agriculturist (1846)
"In the chamois, the bezoar stones appear to consist of vegetable matter. second stomach ; but, in the instance of liquids, such as broth, a portion always ..."

4. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1832)
"It appears, from our author's examination, that the camel, when it drinks, conducts the water in a pure state into the second stomach; that part of it is ..."

5. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"The water, however, which the animal drinks, seems to pass directly into the second stomach. During rumination, small portions of the food pass from the ..."

6. Philosophical Transactions by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1806)
"While the camel is drinking, the action of the muscular band opens the orifice of the second stomach, at the same time that it directs the water into it: ..."

7. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1808)
"Thence it goes in m*i portion« into the second stomach, from which, after a further ... without passing into the second stomach, аз it due» in the cow. ..."

8. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"At its posterior end this first stomach narrows suddenly and passes into the comparatively slender, tubular second stomach which usually is of uniform ..."

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