Definitionn. the opening into the stomach and that part of the stomach connected to the esophagus
Last update: October 14, 2015
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Xix, 21 seq., 46; probably after Hieronymus of Cardia, who was living about 316). [Please select]
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Gizzard: a pouch-like structure between the crop and chylific ventricle furnished with chitinous teeth or plates, in which the food is prepared for the digestive juices by grinding or merely sifting = cardia. [Please select]
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[Footnote 1: "L'extrémité voisine du cardia se termine par une poche très-considérable et doublée à l'intérieure du quatorze valvules orbiculaires que semblent en faire une espèce de division particulière." [Please select]
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