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Definition of Third stomach

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Third Stomach

Literary usage of Third stomach

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

1. American Agriculturist (1846)
"... near the junction of the second aiu third stomachs, there runs to the third stomach a groove, which I shall call the cud-duct, with the first stomach on ..."

2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"This third stomach, in turn, passes abruptly into the fourth and last ... which case the Malpighian tubes are inserted immediately below the third stomach. ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"This is an inverted gutter with thick borders extending from the gullet to the third stomach. The muscular arrangement is such that during its contraction ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"If these lips come in contact, they form a perfect canal, leading directly to the third stomach ; while if they remain open, the food passes into the first ..."

5. Elements of Physiology by Joh. Müller (1843)
"In ruminating animals the oesophagus opens immediately into the first and second stomachs, but is continued onwards to the third stomach in the form of a ..."

6. Parts of the body in older Germanic and Scandinavian by Torild Washington Arnoldson (1915)
"Norw. fill the third stomach of ruminants: filla skin, cover (145:22). Book 133:15. Sw. dial, bok book, the third stomach of ruminants ? ..."

7. The Literary Magazine, and American Register by Charles Brockden Brown (1808)
"When the food is swallowed the second lime, the orifice of the third stomach is brought forward by the muscular bands which terminate in it, so as to oppose ..."

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