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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Placard :: Placard (n.) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later..
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..
Cud :: Cud (n.) That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time..
Oxyntic :: Oxyntic (a.) Acid; producing acid; -applied especially to certain glands and cells in the stomach.
Gastriloquist :: Gastriloquist (n.) One who appears to speak from his stomach; a ventriloquist.
Rennin :: Rennin (n.) A milk-clotting enzyme obtained from the true stomach (abomasum) of a suckling calf. Mol. wt. about 31,000. Also called chymosin, rennase, and abomasal enzyme..
Stomachal :: Stomach (v. i.) To be angry.
Gastrology :: Gastrology (n.) The science which treats of the structure and functions of the stomach; a treatise of the stomach.
Anenterous :: Anenterous (a.) Destitute of a stomach or an intestine.
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.
Gastritis :: Gastritis (n.) Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane..
Elecampane :: Elecampane (n.) A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic..
Manyplies :: Manyplies (n.) The third division, or that between the reticulum, or honeycomb stomach, and the abomasum, or rennet stomach, in the stomach of ruminants; the omasum; the psalterium. So called from the numerous folds in its mucous membrane. See Illust of Ruminant..
Cachunde :: Cachunde (n.) A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic..
Rhabdocoela :: Rhabdocoela (n. pl.) A suborder of Turbellaria including those that have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an intestine..
Water Cell :: Water cell () A cell containing water; specifically (Zool.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel..
Stomachic :: Stomachful (a.) Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse.
Gastromyces :: Gastromyces (n.) The fungoid growths sometimes found in the stomach; such as Torula, etc..
Animal :: Animal (n.) An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity..
Stomach :: Stomach (v. t.) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
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