stomach (redirected from stomach bot)

stomach /stom·ach/ (stum´ak) the musculomembranous expansion of the alimentary canal between the esophagus and duodenum, consisting of a cardiac part, a fundus, a body, and a pyloric part. Its (gastric) glands secrete the gastric juice which, when mixed with food, forms chyme, a semifluid substance suitable for further digestion by the intestine. stom´achalstomach´ic

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cascade stomach  an atypical form of hourglass stomach, characterized radiographically by a drawing up of the posterior wall; an opaque medium first fills the upper sac and then cascades into the lower sac.

hourglass stomach  one more or less completely divided into two parts, resembling an hourglass in shape, due to scarring which complicates chronic gastric ulcer.

Hourglass stomach.

leather bottle stomach  linitis plastica.

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stom·ach (stmk)

n.

The enlarged saclike portion of the digestive tract between the esophagus and small intestine, lying just beneath the diaphragm.

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stomach

the curved, muscular, saclike structure that is an enlargement of the alimentary canal between the esophagus and the small intestine. See also abomasum, reticulum (3), forestomachs, gastric.

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avian glandular stomach

see proventriculus.

stomach bot

see gasterophilus.

compound stomach

a stomach made up of several compartments, e.g. ruminant stomach comprising forestomachs (reticulum, rumen, omasum) and abomasum.

stomach fluke

see paramphistomum.

glandular stomach

found in horses; includes cardiac, proper gastric and pyloric glandular zones.

hourglass stomach

one shaped like an hourglass.

stomach meridian points

acupoints situated along the stomach meridian.

stomach mesenteries

includes mesogastrium, lesser omentum, greater omentum and omental bursa.

muscular stomach

in birds the gizzard or ventriculus.

stomach tube speculum

see frick speculum, hauptner mouth gag. For cattle there is also an instrument made out of a wooden rod with a hole through the center. This is placed between the cow's molars like a bit and held in position with a poll strap. It works adequately for a probang but is much inferior to the Frick speculum for a stomach tube.

stomach worm

see gnathostomaspinigerum, haemonchus, ostertagia.