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See also: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 See also: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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