The fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place.
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Examples for "abomasum"
Examples for "abomasum"
1The base of the abomasum is turned to the omasum.
2Finally it reaches the large abomasum where the last stages of gastric digestion occur.
3Five Nellore heifers were fitted with rumen and abomasum fistulas and assigned to a Latin square design.
4The rumen N balance was negative for the control and when urea was totally supplied in the abomasum.
5The four compartments into which it is divided are the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum or true stomach.
1These worms live in the fourth stomach.
2"People talk a lot about their mental troubles," she said to herself, "but it's usually three- fourths stomach and liver."
Translations for fourth stomach