antestomach

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cavity that leads into the stomach, as in birds.
    — it is immediately swalled into […]a kind of Antestomach ( which I have observ'd in many , especially Piscivorous Birds ) where it is moistned and mollified by some proper Juice from the Glandules distilling in there.
  2. The first stomach of a ruminant.
    — The physiological significance of microorganisms in the antestomach of ruminants .
  3. The lower portion of the esophagus in an animal that has a sphincter controlling the entrance of food from the esophagus into the stomach, especially when that portion of the esophagus is distended or dilated.
    — Fleiner calls attention to the existence of spindle-shaped dilation of the esophagus above the diaphragm, a condition that is termed antestomach, and to a similar condition of the subdiaphragmatic part of the esophagus, nown as "antrum cardiacum.". He has seen six instances of antestomach.

词形变化

antestomachs plural

词源

From ante- + stomach.
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