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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Chyme :: Chyme (n.) The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.
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.)..
Regorge :: Regorge (v. t.) To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back.
Wamble :: Wamble (v. i.) To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach.
Revolt :: Revolt (n.) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty..
Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink..
Wormseed :: Wormseed (n.) Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines..
Reed :: Reed (n.) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
Viscus :: Viscus (n.) One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; -- especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen..
Vell :: Vell (n.) The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag..
Oxyntic :: Oxyntic (a.) Acid; producing acid; -applied especially to certain glands and cells in the stomach.
Vomit :: Vomit (n.) Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth..
Sicken :: Sicken (v. t.) To make qualmish; to nauseate; to disgust; as, to sicken the stomach..
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..
Emetic :: Emetic (a.) Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth.
Flatulent :: Flatulent (a.) Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach..
Flatus :: Flatus (n.) Wind or gas generated in the stomach or other cavities of the body.
Reticulum :: Reticulum (n.) The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb stomach..
Drink :: Drink (v. t.) To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water..
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