monogastricadj.

1749 Philos. Trans. Abridged 1665–1700 (Royal Soc.) (ed. 5) 3 i. 47 The Monogastrick Muscle.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Monogastric, in anatomy, a name given by Vieussens, and some French writers, to one of the muscles of the ear, called by Cowper, the internus auris, and more properly by Albinus, the tensor tympani.

1904 Appleton's Med. Dict. Monogastric, having a single belly (said of muscles).

1997 Acta Anatomica 160 62 The model considers the muscle group as composed of two simple elementary building blocks: the monogastric contractile units of the FDP–FPL [= flexor digitorum profundus and flexor pollicis longus], and the digastric contractile elements of the lumbrical.

1814 Edinb. Rev. Sept. 289 The desires of avarice have an end; but those of prodigality have none: The one is a monogastric bloodsucker [etc.].

1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) (at cited word) Man is monogastric. Ruminating animals, on the contrary, are polygastric.

1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 547 Youatt states that..both with monogastric animals and ruminants, he has never known the drug to fail.

1965 A. K. Totton Synopsis Siphonophora 7 Haeckel made two suborders, the Monogastricae, for some forms which we now call eudoxids or monogastric phases, and the Polygastricae.

1976 Sci. Amer. Feb. 61/2 Monogastric animals, such as pigs, chickens and human beings, must rely mostly on more concentrated foods, such as cereals, fruits, nuts and certain vegetables.

1992 Jrnl. Nutrition 122 1855 Meat from such monogastric animals as swine.