Word: rumen
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...side of a sleepy black steer, Dr. Arthur F. Schalk carved a hole big enough to push a beer bottle through. Straight through the abdominal wall he sliced, until the interior of the rumen and the reticulum-two of the four bovine stomach cavities-was disclosed to view. When the edges of the hole in his steer had healed, plump, white-thatched Dr. Schalk, professor of veterinary medicine at Ohio State University, stoppered it with a wooden plug...
...Vitamin B was found in Jessie's milk after Vitamin B had been deleted from her diet. Puzzled, experimenters cut a hole in Jessie's side, inserted a rubber tube, periodically examined the contents of her stomach. Ninety per cent of the bacteria in rumen were discovered to be of a new kind, flavobacterium vitarumen. Bacteriologist Ralph Porter Tittsler began investigating the bacteria in Jessie's stomach to discover what influence salt and other chemicals had upon the digestive processes of cows...
...operation was under local anesthetic. Heifer Jessie did not wince as the veterinarians scoured a patch of hide and cut a window into her first stomach. This was her rumen or paunch, where she was storing up her freshly swallowed fodder. Later, when these annoying men departed, she would regurgitate a large fistful and chew it at contented leisure, mixing it with saliva, so that it would slide down, a warm and pleasant blob of food, into her second stomach. This was her reticulum, her honeycomb stomach, which some day will be used for honeycomb tripe. (The rumen constitutes ordinary...