stomachal
IPA: stˈʌmʌkʌɫ
noun
- (obsolete) A stomachic.
adjective
- Of or relating to the stomach; gastric.
- (obsolete) Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.
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Examples of "stomachal" in Sentences
- For nature is thus enabled to allot to each stomachal compartment and ovum its separate and similar tooth.
- Eat this slice of marchpane, it will help your digestion; then shall you be presented with a cup of claret hippocras, which is right healthful and stomachal.
- But animals, with scarcely an exception, and conspicuously all such as are capable of locomotion, are provided with a stomachal sac, which is as it were an internal substitute for the earth.
- Beverage, far from being suppressed, should be augmented, in order to facilitate stomachal digestion and promote general nutrition, though alcoholic liquids must be inhibited; likewise mineral waters, except, perhaps, for occasional use.
- Some months later a small fold or doubling of the stomachal coats slightly protruded until the whole aperture was filled, so as to supersede the necessity of a compress, the protruding coats acting as a valve when the stomach was filled.
- On the following evening I went to see if anything remained of this gentle girl, so sweet, so loving, but I found nothing but a fragment of the 'os stomachal,' in which, is spite of this, there still remained some moisture, and which some say still trembled like a woman does in the same place.
- [Illustration: Outline of the Stomach of a Calf about a fortnight old.] [Illustration: Outline of the Stomach of a full-grown Cow.] [These engravings, illustrative of the comparative sizes of the different stomachal cavities, are copied from original drawings taken from preparations of the stomachs which I made expressly for this purpose.]
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