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proventriculus

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proventriculus
1. the elongated, spindle-shaped, glandular stomach of birds. Supplemented by the muscular stomach just distal to it.
2. the ruminant forestomachs.
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Although a presumptive diagnosis can be achieved through imaging studies and biopsy, for most animals, definitive diagnosis is made postmortem, only after detailed histologic analysis indicates the accumulation of lymphocytes in nerves that supply the proventriculus and ventriculus, in their associated ganglia, and in brain.
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Whole blood or the control solution was then administered by garage tube into the proventriculus as scheduled per study design.
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