单词 | omasum |
释义 | omasumn. Originally: a thick or fat part of a ruminant's stomach. Later: the third and smallest stomach of a ruminant, containing numerous tightly packed leaves or laminae; cf. manyplies n. 2a, psalterium n. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > [noun] > ruminant > parts of > stomach > third omasum1553 omasus1658 feck1681 manyplies1782 psalterium1840 fardel1862 1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 51v/1 Omasum, is one of the foure partes of a beastes maw, very fatte, cald a tripe. 1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ (1676) 84 That is that which Anatomists call, Omasum, and our Butchers, the Read. 1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 85 Being not unlike the Omasum and Abomasum of an Ox. 1797 Encycl. Brit. V. 262 The food..is protruded into the third [sc. stomach], called..omasum, vulgo the manyplies. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. i. 43 In all the ruminating animals there are four stomachs: the ingluvies;..the reticulum;..the omasum or many-plies; and the abomasum. 1903 N. S. Mayo Care of Animals 245 The next stomach is the omasum, or ‘manyplies’ or ‘manifolds’. 1950 Amer. Midland Naturalist 43 480 Samples of contents were taken..from the ileum (small intestine), abomasum, omasum, and rumino-reticular cavity. 2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Mar. 26/1 He must have multiple stomachs like a cow, the gin going to the omasum, while the wine stops in the reticulum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1553 |
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