ventriculus
Americannoun
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ventriculi
plural
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the part of the food tract in which digestion takes place, especially the lower cavity of a compound stomach in insects.
noun
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zoology
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the midgut of an insect, where digestion takes place
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the gizzard of a bird
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another word for ventricle
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Etymology
Origin of ventriculus
From Latin, dating back to 1685–95; see origin at ventricle
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Jackie also showed signs of chronic disease involving the ventriculus, also known as gizzard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Resemblances also exist between the endospores and the spore-formations in the Saccharomycetes, and if Bacillus inflatus, B. ventriculus, &c., really form more than one spore in the cell, these analogies are strengthened.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
One lives in the soil and the other, first identified in 1844, is called Sarcina ventriculi and was known to cause gastrointestinal symptoms in humans and animals like those the Tacugama chimps suffered.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2021
The researchers then sequenced the genome from the bacteria in the sample, finding it most closely matched that of S. ventriculi.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 3, 2021
The illnesses and deaths in humans and animals attributed to Sarcina ventriculi may actually be caused by the new bacterium, or similar species.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2021
Further studies of the DNA from the new species of bacterium show it has genes that make it more virulent than S. ventriculi.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 3, 2021
Is not the cardia ventriculi the seat of this disease?
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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