The fourth stomach compartment in ruminants.
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Examples for "maw "
Examples for "maw "
1 Side brushes theoretically help bring debris closer into the vacuum's hungry maw .
2 So much for the measure of the maw of the circulating library.
3 It was bad enough seeing the open maw for the first time.
4 It had been swallowed up in China's cavernous maw , that was all.
5 The grinding of stone announced the jackal's maw grating open once more.
1 The base of the abomasum is turned to the omasum.
2 Finally it reaches the large abomasum where the last stages of gastric digestion occur.
3 Five Nellore heifers were fitted with rumen and abomasum fistulas and assigned to a Latin square design.
4 The rumen N balance was negative for the control and when urea was totally supplied in the abomasum .
5 The four compartments into which it is divided are the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum or true stomach.
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