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单词 first stomach
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first stomach
first stomach n. [compare post-classical Latin primus stomachus (1559 or earlier), primus venter (1521 or earlier)] (in an animal with multiple stomachs or a multi-chambered stomach) the stomach into which food passes from the oesophagus, spec. the rumen of a ruminant; (in early use also) †the crop of a bird (obsolete).
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1595 Problemes of Aristotle sig. Cv They [sc. horned beasts] doe first conuey their meate into their first stomacke or belly, and then returne it from whence it came and chew it.
1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 118 This first Stomach, (or the Crop) one of our moderns tels us may be wounded and sown up again..: but not the second or true Stomach, which is most Vital.
1791 R. Beilby Gen. Hist. Quadrupeds (ed. 2) 22 The food, after mastication, is thrown into the first stomach, where it remains for some time.
1807 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 97 The first stomach of the whale is not only a reservoir, but the food undergoes a considerable change in it.
1915 Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 176. 41 The only hope of destroying the alkaloid under such circumstances would be by flooding the first stomach with the antidote.
2011 J. M. Bennett Compl. Guide Grass-fed Cattle vi. 146 The first stomach, the rumen, contains organisms that break down fiber in grass.
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