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What is an abomasum?

What is an abomasum? Here are some definitions.

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  1. The fourth or digestive compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant, after the omasum.
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Traits the researchers analysed were clinical mastitis, lameness, metritis, ketosis and displaced abomasum.
Food taken into the rumen is later regurgitated into the mouth and completely masticated, then swallowed again and passed to the reticulum, omasum, and abomasum.
These are called the paunch, the honeycomb stomach or bag, the manyplies and the abomasum.
Metabolic problems in general, such as displaced abomasum, retained placenta or milk fever are also very rare.
Most, however, have four, the leaf stomach or psalterium being intercalated between the retinaculum and the abomasum.
This ensures that during suckling milk is channeled directly to the abomasum bypassing wasteful ruminal fermentation.

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