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monogastric, a.|mɒnəʊˈgæstrɪk|
[ad. F. monogastrique: see mono- and gastric.]
1. Anat. (See quots.)
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Monogastric, in anatomy, a name given by Vieussens, and some French writers, to one of the muscles of the ear, called by Cowper, the internus auris, and more properly by Albinus, the tensor tympani. 1904Appleton's Med. Dict., Monogastric,..2. having a single belly (said of muscles).
2. Having only one stomach or digestive cavity.
1814Edin. Rev. XXIII. 289 The one [i.e. Avarice] is a monogastric bloodsucker. 1849Huxley in Phil. Trans. CXXXIX. 426 The stomach of a monogastric Diphyes. 1855Dunglison Med. Lex. (ed. 12) s.v., Man is monogastric; ruminating animals, on the contrary, are polygastric. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 547 Youatt states that..both with monogastric animals and ruminants, he has never known the drug to fail. |