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1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. i. 17 The Gullet..in many birds of this kind immediately above the stomach is dilated into a kind of bag or ante-stomach [L. ventriculum liminarem].

1701 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 3) i. 29 Swallow'd into the Crop..or at least into a kind of Antestomach.

1836 Sat. Mag. 15 Oct. 147/2 Birds have their craw; ruminating beasts their first, or ante-stomach.

1922 Internat. Med. & Surg. Surv. 3 No. 3. i. 415 The permanent secretion is for the purpose of moistening the contents of the 3 antestomachs [of a sheep] and the neutralization of the acids of fermentation.

2001 E. Bingham et al. Patty's Toxicol. (ed. 5) VI. lxxvii. 432 In the oral study, four malignant tumors were reported: a myeloid leukemia, two liver cell carcinomas, and one antestomach carcinoma.