Search the Dictionary

Having a typically large size; belonging to the megasthenes.

One of a group of univalve shells, having a large aperture or mouth.

f peritoneum connecting the stomach with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity; the mesogastrium.

Of or pertaining to the mesogaster.

The mesogaster.

Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.

Having but a single stomach.

Surrounding the stomach; -- applied to the body cavity of Bryozoa and various other Invertebrata.

The pneumogastric nerve. Pneumogastric nerve (Anat.), one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.

One of the Polygastrica. [Obs.]

Pertaining to the Polygastrica. [Obs.]

The Infusoria. [Obs.]

Same as Pulmonata.

Mollusca belonging to the Isopleura. A narrow groove takes the place of the foot of other gastropods.

Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca.

A pretender or quack in theology. [R.] Burton.

Having three bellies; -- said of a muscle. Dunglison.

Behind the stomach; -- said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.

Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods.

organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.