Meaning of omasum | Babel Free

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1. The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the lining of said compartment, regarded as a foodstuff.
2. The third division of the stomach of a ruminant animal, located between the abomasum and the reticulum. Also called manyplies.
   manyplies
3. the third stomach of a ruminant, between the reticulum and the abomasum.
4. The third division of the stomach in ruminant animals. It removes excess water from food and further reduces the size of food particles before passing them to the abomasum for digestion by enzymes. See more at ruminant.
5. (Zoology) another name for psalterium
6. n → Blättermagen m
   n

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Examples

“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 colloquial name, book stomach).”

“The role of the omasum is not entirely clear. The organ fills with very fluid digesta leaving the reticulo-rumen, but omasal contents are very dry and tightly compacted. Clearly, fluid absorption takes place in the omasum and in cattle, water, electrolytes and VFA^([volatile fatty acids]) are absorbed.”

“Finally, grazers, with the higher fluid throughput through the reticulorumen, require larger omasa (Table 4.6)—with the main function of omasa being the resorption of fluid, to prevent too diluted digesta reaching the sites of auto-enzymatic digestion (Clauss et al. 2006).”

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