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How to use proventriculus in a sentence

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Parents sustain themselves during incubation on energy stored as body fat and lipid-rich stomach oil in the proventriculus.
Four tunnels off the lumen of the proventriculus of the carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica virginica, have been discovered.
Cut the heavy muscular wall of the gizzard with a knife and extend the incision up through the proventriculus and lower oesophagus to the crop.
The proventriculus of the worker honeybee is an organ which effects a highly efficient separation of pollen grains from the medium in which they are suspended.
Enhanced levels of expression are seen in older embryos adjacent to the segmental involutions and in the salivary glands, proventriculus, and somatic musculature.
The crop discharges into the midgut, sometimes, as in cockroaches, by way of a muscular gizzard or proventriculus.
The esophagus, proventriculus, and ventriculus were tied off from adjacent sections of the digestive tract to prevent mixing of contents.
The stomach is typically divided into a glandular proventriculus and a muscular gizzard, the latter lying near the centre of gravity of the bird and compensating for the lack of teeth and the generally weak jaw musculature.
Samples from brain, proventriculus, and ventriculus were embedded in paraffin wax, sectioned at 4 pm, and stained with hematoxylin and eosin.
Afterwards, the EP-procyclin remained the dominant surface protein during the different developmental stages in the midgut, proventriculus and foregut and the immature stages in the salivary glands.
A crop-support pressure bandage was placed in 4 birds to improve crop emptying into the proventriculus and to prevent crop distension.
The proventriculus, gizzard, pancreas, duodenum, jejunum and ileum were removed and weighed.
They produce a stomach oil made up of wax esters and triglycerides that is stored in the proventriculus.
The proventriculus and ventriculus contained a small amount of mucus.
Besides the esophageal lymphoma, neoplastic lymphoid cells were observed in the adrenal glands, liver, kidneys, lung, proventriculus, and gizzard.
This oil is created in a stomach organ known as a proventriculus from digested prey items by most Procellariiformes, and gives them their distinctive musty smell.
Examples from Classical Literature
One specimen, two inches long, reached from the crop to the proventriculus.
A pelican can hold up to 3 gallons of fish and water in its gular pouch, which is roughly 3 times the amount that will fit into the proventriculus.
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