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An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.

Examination of the abdomen or stomach, as with the gastroscope.

Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament.

The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food.

A cutting into, or opening of, the abdomen or the stomach.

eeding (as of poultry or infants) by means of a tube passed through the mouth down to the stomach.

The muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds.

That with which one is girded; a girdle. Instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth. Is. iii. 24.

The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.

The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. Spenser. Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it. Shak.

enomena, particularly in the digestive organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines, etc. Dunglison.

The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.

. . . glibly gulped down the whole narrative. Fielding. To gulp up, to throw up from the stomach; to disgorge.

heep or lamb, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck. [Written also haggiss, haggess, and haggies.]

An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints.

Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; -- said of food.

rforated with cells like a honeycomb. Honeycomb moth (Zoöl.), the wax moth. -- Honeycomb stomach. (Anat.) See Reticulum.

A disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.

Below the sternum; as, the infrasternal depression, or pit of the stomach.

To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal. Sir T. Browne.