proventricularadj.
/ˌprəʊvɛnˈtrɪkjᵿlə/, U.S. /ˌproʊvɛnˈtrɪkjələr/ Zoology and Veterinary Medicine.
Of or relating to a proventriculus.
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proventricular1835
1835 R. Owen in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 319/1 The secretion of the proventricular or gastric glands is analogous to the gastric juice in man.
1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 683 The belt of proventricular glands is about a third of an inch broad.
1895 Athenæum 30 Mar. 412/3 A description of the proventricular crypts he had found in..the African tantalus.
1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. i. 54 (caption) Anterior proventricular muscle.
1987 M. S. Laverack & J. Dando Lect. Notes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 3) xxiii. 120/1 The proventricular valve separates fore- and midgut.
2004 Avian Pathol. 33 77 Two proventricular neoplasms..were diagnosed as proventricular adenocarcinoma that arose from the proventricular surface epithelium.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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