Definition of stomach

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Stomach (n.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric..

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Sickness :: Sickness (n.) Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach..
Wind :: Wind (n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind..
Cardia :: Cardia (n.) The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it..
Drink :: Drink (n.) Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions..
Mesogastric :: Mesogastric (a.) Of or pertaining to the middle region of the abdomen, or of the stomach..
Reticulum :: Reticulum (n.) The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb stomach..
Gastrohepatic :: Gastrohepatic (a.) Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic, or lesser, omentum..
Vomitive :: Vomitive (a.) Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.
Stomachous :: Stomachless (a.) Having no appetite.
Bryozoum :: Bryozoum (n.) An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.)..
Stomachical :: Stomachic (a.) Alt. of Stomachica.
Gastromalacia :: Gastromalacia (n.) A softening of the coats of the stomach; -- usually a post-morten change.
Cast :: Cast (n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm..
Gastritis :: Gastritis (n.) Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane..
Gigerium :: Gigerium (n.) The muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds..
Surfeit :: Surfeit (v. t.) To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets..
Stomachless :: Stomachless (a.) Being without a stomach.
Gullet :: Gullet (n.) The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.
Stomachful :: Stomacher (n.) An ornamental covering for the breast, worn originally both by men and women. Those worn by women were often richly decorated..
Haggis :: Haggis (n.) A Scotch pudding made of the heart, liver, lights, etc., of a sheep or lamb, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck..
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