Word: rumen
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...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...