The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing.
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Examples for "rumen"
1The KHLL leaves could be fed to goats without compromising rumen metabolism.
2These low SB intakes must not have substantially affected rumen pH.
3We confirmed and further characterized the presence of leukocytes in the rumen fluids.
4Between sixty and seventy per cent of the cellulose is digested in the rumen.
5The rumen is the largest compartment, with a capacity of more than twenty gallons.
1When its sharp tip touched the first stomach, it came to life and wriggled out of his hand.
2To do this, they had to bring the partly chewed food from the first stomach to the mouth again.
3But while the development of all is simultaneous, their culmination and supremacy is successive, first stomach and muscle, then brain and mind.
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