Meaning of proventricular | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Relating to the proventriculus
   not-comparable
2. Relating to the stage in the lifecycle of some parasites when they migrate to the proventriculus or midgut.
   not-comparable

Examples

“Commonly indicated for treatment of sour crop (Fig. 11-11, A), an ingluviotomy is done to retrieve crop calculi, ingluvioliths, or foreign bodies (which are not accessible per os) or to retrieve proventricular or ventricular foreign bodies (using micromagnets [glued in place within plastic tubes], lavage, or endoscopy) and for the placement of an ingluviotomy or proventriculotomy tube or the collection of crop wall biopsies.”

“In contrast to ALBA proteins that are RNA-binding proteins involved in parasite development in the tsetse fly, the signal was not reduced in proventricular stages [42 ].”

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