The layer of the peritoneum that covers the abdominal organs.
What is the visceral peritoneum?
100
Entrance located nearest the esophagus.
What is the cardia?
100
Means gatekeeper and refers to the narrow passage between the stomach and duodenum.
What is pylor/o?
100
Regurgitated food particles, fiber, rumen fluid, and rumen microorganisms.
What is cud?
200
abdomin/o and celi/o
What are the combining forms for abdomen?
200
A fold of the peritoneum that connects the stomach to other visceral organs.
What is the omentum?
200
Base of an organ, which is the cranial, rounded part.
What is the Fundus?
200
The muscle ring that controls the flow of material from the stomach to the duodenum of the small intestine.
What is the phyloric sphincter?
200
Largest compartment of the ruminant stomach stomach that serves as a fermentation vat; also called the paunch. It is divided into a ventral and dorsal sac.
What is the rumen?
300
Lapar/o
What is the combining form for abdomen or flank?
300
Gastr/o
What is the combining form for stomach?
300
Main portion of an organ , which is the rounded base or bottom; also called the corpus.
What is the body?
300
The folds present in the mucosa of the stomach.
What is the rugae?
300
Most cranial compartment of the ruminant stomach, also called the honeycomb because it is lined with a mucous membrane that contains numerous intersecting ridges.
What is the reticulum?
400
The membrane lining that covers the abdominal and pelvic cavities and some of the organs in this area.
What is the peritoneum?
400
Animals that have one true or glandular stomach.
What is monogastric?
400
caudal part, which is the constricted part of the stomach that joins the pylorus.
What is the antrum?
400
Animals that can regurgitate and remasticate their food.
What is a ruminant?
400
Third compartment of the ruminant stomach. Has short blunt papillae that grind food before it enters the next stomach. Contractions also squeeze fluid out of the food bolus.
What is the omasum?
500
The layer of the peritoneum that lines the abdominal and pelvic cavities.
What is the parietal peritonium?
500
The stomach that produces secretions for digestion.
What is a glandular stomach?
500
The narrow passage between the stomach and the duodenum.
What is the pylorus?
500
Microbes that produce enzymes that can digest plant cells through fermentation.
What are intestinal flora?
500
Fourth compartment of the ruminant stomach. Also called the true stomach. The glandular portion that secretes digestive enzymes.