abomasum

English

Alternative forms

abomasus

Etymology

From New Latin abomāsum, from ab- (“away from”) + omāsum (“tripe of a bullock”).

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˌæb.oʊˈmeɪ.səm/

Noun

abomasum (plural abomasa or abomasums)

(biology, food) The fourth or digestive compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant, after the omasum;
the lining of said compartment, considered as a foodstuff.
Synonyms: rennet stomach, rennet bag, reed tripe
- 1990, Animal Disease Occurrence, Volumes 11-14, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, page 60,
  The abomasa of sheep grazing on natural pastures in the highveld of Zimbabwe were examined at Mt. Hampden abattoir between October 1985 and September 1986 for H. contortus. Of 304 abomasa, 213 (70%) harboured H. contortus.
- 1996 [1991, Ellis Horwood Limited], R. K. Robinson, A. Y. Tamime, Feta & Related Cheeses, Woodhead Publishing Limited, page 54,
  Traditionally, coagulation of the milk for Feta cheese manufacture was achieved using rennet produced by cheesemakers themselves from the abomasa of lambs and kids slaughtered before weaning.
- 2002, Larry Engelking, Review of Veterinary Physiology, Teton NewMedia, page 328,
  Digesta, which are compressed inside the omasal body, are forced onwards into the abomasum by a gradually increasing and prolonged contraction of the omasal body (which starts after the first or second contraction of the omasal canal).
- 2013 [1966], Robert E. Hungate, The Rumen and Its Microbes, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 162:
  In the newborn ruminant the abomasum is about as large as the rumen and remains relatively large as long as only milk is consumed (Brugnone, 1809).

Derived terms

abomasal

Translations

fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant

Afrikaans: melkpens (af)
Albanian: mullëz (sq) m
Amharic: ወተት ኣንጀት (wätät ʾanǧät)
Arabic: إِنْفَحَة‎ f (ʾinfaḥa)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܥܢܘܝܬܐ‎ f (ʿənawwīṯā)
Armenian: շրդան (hy) (šrdan), խախածոց (xaxacocʿ)
Aromanian: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: qursaq (az)
Basque: abomaso
Belarusian: сычу́г m (syčúh)
Breton: kaouledenn f
Bulgarian: сирищник m (sirištnik)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 皺胃 (zh) (zhòuwèi)
Corsican: caghjarella f
Czech: slez (cs) m
Danish: abomasum c
Dutch: leb (nl) f, lebmaag (nl) f
Elfdalian: kęse m
Esperanto: abomaso
Estonian: libedik, libemagu
Faroese: vinstur f
Finnish: juoksutusmaha (fi)
French: caillette (fr) f
Galician: abomaso (gl) m, calleira (gl) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Labmagen (de) m
Greek:
Ancient Greek: ἤνυστρον n (ḗnustron)
Hebrew: קיבת המיצים‎ m (kevát hamitsím)
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: oltógyomor (hu)
Icelandic: vinstur f, vigur m
Ido: acidostomako (io)
Inari Sami: togge
Ingush: шоа (šoa)
Interlingua: abomaso
Irish: abomasam m
Italian: abomaso (it) m
Japanese: ギアラ (giara)
Kannada: ನಿಜೊಡಲು (kn) (nijoḍalu), ನೈಜಜಠರ (kn) (naijajaṭhara)
Kazakh: ұлтабар (ūltabar)
Kildin Sami: tå´ŋ̄g (tå´ŋ̄g)
Korean: 주름위 (jureumwi), 제4 위 (jesa wi), 추위 (ko) (chuwi)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: شیلاوِک‎ (şîlawik)
Northern Kurdish: şîlavk (ku)
Latin: abomāsum n
Latvian: glumenieks m
Limburgish: lebmaag f
Lithuanian: šliužas m
Lule Sami: dågge, tåggē
Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
Malagasy: vavoninkena (mg)
Malay: abomasum
Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
Middle English: rede
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Northern Sami: doggi, dogˈge
Norwegian:
Bokmål: løypemage m
Nynorsk: løypemage m
Persian: شیردان‎ (fa)
Pite Sami: dågˈge
Polish: trawieniec (pl) m inan
Portuguese: abomaso (pt), coalho (pt) m
Romanian: cheag (ro) n
Russian: сычу́г (ru) m (syčúg)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: си̏рӣште m
Latin: sȉrīšte (sh) m
Skolt Sami: tå´ǧǧ
Slovak: slez m
Slovene: siriščnik m
Spanish: abomaso (es) m
Swedish: löpmage c
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Telugu: please add this translation if you can
Ter Sami: toŋ̜̄g̜e
Thai: อะโบมาซัม (à boh-maa sam)
Tigre: please add this translation if you can
Tigrinya: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: abomazum
Tuvan: борбуяк (borbuyak)
Ukrainian: сичу́г m (syčúh)
Ume Sami: dåggee
Vietnamese: dạ túi khế, dạ múi khế
Walloon: molete (wa) m
Welsh: cylla m, abomaswm m
Westrobothnian: vinster f
Yiddish: קיטניצע‎ f (kitnitse)

reed tripe (food)

Korean: 막창 (makchang), 홍창 (hongchang)

Latin

Etymology

ab- (“away from”) +‎ omāsum (“tripe of a bullock”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /a.boˈmaː.sum/, [äbɔˈmäːs̠ʊ̃ˑ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.boˈma.sum/, [äboˈmäːs̬um]

Noun

abomāsum n (genitive abomāsī); second declension

abomasum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	abomāsum	abomāsa
Genitive	abomāsī	abomāsōrum
Dative	abomāsō	abomāsīs
Accusative	abomāsum	abomāsa
Ablative	abomāsō	abomāsīs
Vocative	abomāsum	abomāsa

Descendants

→ English: abomasum
→ Italian: abomaso
→ Malay: abomasum
→ Portuguese: abomaso
→ Spanish: abomaso

Malay

Etymology

From New Latin abomāsum, from Latin ab- (“away from”) + omāsum (“tripe of a bullock”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /abomasum/

Noun

abomasum (Jawi spelling ابوماسوم‎, plural abomasum-abomasum, informal 1st possessive abomasumku, 2nd possessive abomasummu, 3rd possessive abomasumnya)

Abomasum (fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant)