Definition of stomach

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Stomach (n.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric..

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Craw :: Craw (n.) The stomach of an animal.
Flatulent :: Flatulent (a.) Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach..
Placard :: Placard (n.) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later..
Reticulum :: Reticulum (n.) The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb stomach..
Eructation :: Eructation (n.) The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch.
Catarrh :: Catarrh (n.) An inflammatory affection of any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as, catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder..
Gastritis :: Gastritis (n.) Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane..
Gastric :: Gastric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery..
Gizzard :: Gizzard (n.) 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..
Emptiness :: Emptiness (n.) The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach..
Pneumogastric :: Pneumogastric (a.) Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach.
Belch :: Belch (v. i.) To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.
Wamble :: Wamble (v. i.) To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach.
Stomached :: Stomach (n.) Pride; haughtiness; arrogance.
Animal :: Animal (n.) An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity..
Stomachy :: Stomachous (a.) Stout; sullen; obstinate.
Drink :: Drink (v. t.) To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water..
Gastro- :: Gastro- () A combining form from the Gr. /, /, the stomach, or belly; as in gastrocolic, gastrocele, gastrotomy..
Vomitive :: Vomitive (a.) Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.
Cast :: Cast (n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm..
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