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The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen.

Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man.

Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach. Vegetables abound more with aërial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent. Arbuthnot.

Wind or gas generated in the stomach or other cavities of the body. Quincy.

A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.

One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily.

isturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat. To keep the oil from frying in the stomach. Bacon.

In Bryozoa, an organ extending back from the stomach. See Bryozoa, and Phylactolema.

Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders.

Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery. Gastric digestion (Physiol.), the conversion of the albuminous portion of food in the stomach into soluble and diffusible products by the solvent action of gastric juice. -- Gastric fever (Med.), a fever attended with prominent gastric symptoms;…

One who appears to speak from his stomach; a ventriloquist.

A voice or utterance which appears to proceed from the stomach; ventriloquy.

Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.

Pertaining to both the stomach and the colon; as, the gastrocolic, or great, omentum.

Pertaining to the stomach and duodenum; as, the gastroduodenal artery.

Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice.

Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines.

Of or pertaining to the stomach and omentum.

Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic, or lesser, omentum.

Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric.