The fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place.
The fourth stomach compartment in ruminants.
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.
6 Cryptosporidium andersoni parasited in the abomasum has been demonstrated as a cause of reduction of milk production in dairy cow.
7 The fourth or true pyloric chamber is an elongated sac with smooth glandular walls and is the abomasum , or rennet sack.
8 ABOMASUM (caillette), the fourth or rennet stomach of Ruminantia.
9 9.-Photographof model of stomach of ruminant: rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum . ]
10 15.-Photographof model of digestive tract of ruminant: oesophagus; rumen; reticulum; omasum; abomasum ; small intestine; and large intestine.]
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