foregut

Examples

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• Thus, foregut fermentation in hoatzins represents several nutritional advantages.

  Academic text (1992)

• The more we learned about the digestive tract of the hoatzin, the more it resembled that of a mammal with foregut fermentation.

  Academic text (1992)

• Subsequently, the stomach appears as a fusiform dilatation of the foregut, and its appearance changes as various regions of its wall grow at different rates.

  Academic text (2007)

• Tracheal development begins during the fourth week of life, when the respiratory diverticulum branches off of the foregut mesenchyme.

  Academic text (2008)

• Another theory detailing a congenital origin involves the failure of the developmental descent of the fetal foregut.

  Academic text (2007)

• During this period, the esophagus develops as the foregut is divided into the ventral respiratory portion and the dorsal esophageal portion.

  Academic text (2007)

• To find out just how much foregut fermentation affected the bird's energy budget, we tested hoatzin and cow bacterial extracts by culturing them in glass tubes and recording their activity over time.

  Academic text (1992)

• One possibility is that, besides enhancing the nutritional value of fiber, foregut fermentation allows microbes to detoxify the noxious chemicals of tropical plants before the food is absorbed.

  Academic text (1992)

• We found that volatile fatty acids were as concentrated in the hoatzin crop as they were in the gut fermentation chambers of cows and other mammals with foregut fermentation.

  Academic text (1992)

• The foregut develops into the esophagus and stomach during early embryonic growth.

Antonyms

H

hindgut

• Specialized

1 9.3

The back part of the gut in an embryo that becomes the large intestine

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology