📚 noun • entry_id 47733
omasum
/oʊˈmeɪsəm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
omaso
The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the lining of said compartment, regarded as a foodstuff.
The deer of the northern group are larger in body size and have well-developed rumino-reticulums, smaller omasums, and longer small intestines (Takatsuki 1988).
The omasum is a spherical organ filled with muscular laminae (an estimated 90 to 130 in the bovine omasum) that lie in sheets, much like the pages of a book (giving the omasum its…
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