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ABOMASUM (caillette)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 67 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABOMASUM (caillette) , the See also:fourth or rennet See also:stomach of See also:Ruminantia. From the omasuen the See also:food is finally deposited in the abomasum, a cavity considerably larger than either the second or third stomach, although less than the first. The See also:base of the abomasum is turned to the omasum. It is of an irregular conical See also:form. It is that See also:part of the See also:digestive apparatus which is analogous to the single stomach of other See also:Mammalia, as the .food there undergoes the See also:process of chymification, after being macerated and ground down in the three first stomachs.

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