The fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place.
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Examples for "abomasum "
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.
1 These 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."
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