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The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.

The digestion of fats.

Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm.

Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.

A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.

motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.

the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part. The mouth, the antechamber to the digestive canal. Todd & Bowman.

A body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone.

A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

Defective digestion, indigestion. Coxe.

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

onversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals. Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation. Sir T. Browne.

A digesting furnace, formerly used by alchemists. It was so constructed as to maintain uniform and durable heat. Chambers.

A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century. P. Cyc.

e in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.

reat bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.

viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.

Troubled with bad digestion. [R.] Carlyle.

the heart, accompanied with cardisc palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion.

A soluble product (proteose) formed in the gastric and pancreatic digestion of casein and caseinogen.