first stomach


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Synonyms for first stomach

the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant

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three or four times the size of its first stomach (the rumen).
Scientists have found that foliage from a tree species in Africa appears to suppress the protozoa which inhabit the rumen, animals' first stomach, which receives food or cud.
RUMEN A cow can pack away more than 160 liters (40 gallons) of food and water in its rumen, or first stomach chamber!
He had, essentially, collected the food in the basket of his first stomach, then found a quiet place to grind it up into a usable form, like grain on a metate.
Nitrate is converted to nitrite in the rumen or first stomach of livestock, which depletes the blood of oxygen.
coli 0157:H7 and other microbes that normally live in a cow's first stomach, or rumen.
But last week, just 20 minutes after another 'toaster tea', the first stomach gurgle echoed through the windowless building site and I knew we'd have to take action to find Beloved somewhere warm to lie down and weep.