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STOMACH SAC [5 records]

Record 1 2021-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fish
  • Aquaculture
CONT

When the yolk sac is almost completely absorbed, alevins begin to feed exogenously; this is … commonly referred to as "swim-up fry. "Unlike most species, salmonids have a functional stomach present before external feeding begins... Food taken at first feeding is related to the gape of the mouth, but also to prey abundance, size, availability, and mobility.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poissons
  • Aquaculture

Spanish

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Record 2 2009-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Prepared Dishes (Cooking)
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
CONT

There are two methods for serving lobster in the shell. The shell can be broken apart using lobster crackers and the meat then picked out, or the lobster can be cut in half down the centre and the claws cut open with a large heavy knife. All of the lobster is edible except for the shell, the small stomach(hard sac) behind the head and the dark vein, running down the back of the tail.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plats cuisinés
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
CONT

Le homard en carapace est un produit très luxueux, mais il existe peu de façons de le servir.

Spanish

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Record 3 2009-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Anatomy
  • Veterinary Medicine
DEF

The 4th stomach of ruminating animals... It is an elongated, pear-shaped sac lying on the floor of the abdomen, on the right-hand side and roughly between the 7th and 12th ribs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anatomie animale
  • Médecine vétérinaire
DEF

Quatrième compartiment de l'estomac des ruminants, ayant seul une activité gastrique.

Key term(s)
  • abomasus

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Anatomía animal
  • Medicina veterinaria
DEF

Última de las cuatro cavidades del estómago de los rumiantes. Se encuentra en la parte inferior derecha del rumen y presenta forma piriforme y alargada. Es el único compartimiento glandular; segrega jugo gástrico y en él tiene lugar la quimificación, con una función esencialmente idéntica a la del estómago simple.

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Record 4 1987-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Science
DEF

inflammation of the outer coat of the heart sac caused by an object which inflicts an injury. In cattle, in which this condition is commonest, it is often produced by a sharp foreign body wandering from the second stomach, through the diaphragm, and so into the pericardial sac.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Zootechnie

Spanish

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Record 5 1986-02-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Stomach

French

Domaine(s)
  • Estomac

Spanish

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