An expanded region of the vertebrate alimentary tract that serves as a food storage compartment and digestive organ. A stomach is lined, in whole or in part by a glandular epithelium. [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0073040584 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomach https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]
Term information
- AAO:0000579
- EFO:0000837
- NCIT:C12391
- SCTID:181246003
- Wikipedia:Stomach
- EHDAA2:0001915
- VHOG:0000408
- GAID:293
- CALOHA:TS-0980
- EV:0100070
- XAO:0000128
- TAO:0002121
- MA:0000353
- UMLS:C0038351 (ncithesaurus:Stomach)
- BTO:0001307
- galen:Stomach
- FMA:7148
- ANISEED:1235297
- MESH:D013270
- EMAPA:17021
- EHDAA:2993
- MAT:0000051
- MIAA:0000051
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Portion of alimentary canal with increased circular and longitudinal smooth muscle. Bounded posteriorly by the pyloric sphincter. Mucosal lining has increased folding.[AAO]
It appears that the stomach has an ancient origin. The stomach first appears in the fish lineage. The prevertebrate chordates do not have a true stomach, whereas the cartilaginous and bony fish do. Although most fish do have a true stomach, some fish species appear to have lost the stomach secondarily. The remaining vertebrate lineages do have a true stomach (at least in the adult animal), although there is great variation in the size and shape of the stomach.[well established][VHOG]
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_7955
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_7878
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9259
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_7864
We restrict this to the vertebrate specific structure - see the grouping class 'food storage organ' for analogous structures in other species. Teleosts: Zebrafish is functionally stomach-less, but may retain ontogenic footprint. Although the precise shape and size of the stomach varies widely among different vertebrates, the relative positions of the oesophageal and duodenal openings remain relatively constant. As a result, the organ always curves somewhat to the left before curving back to meet the pyloric sphincter. However, lampreys, hagfishes, chimaeras, lungfishes, and some teleost fish have no stomach at all, with the oesophagus opening directly into the intestine. The gastric lining is usually divided into two regions, an anterior portion lined by fundic glands, and a posterior with pyloric glands. Cardiac glands are unique to mammals, and even then are absent in a number of species. The distributions of these glands vary between species, and do not always correspond with the same regions as in man. Furthermore, in many non-human mammals, a portion of the stomach anterior to the cardiac glands is lined with epithelium essentially identical to that of the oesophagus. Ruminants, in particular, have a complex stomach, the first three chambers of which are all lined with oesophageal mucosa
Term relations
- food storage organ
- subdivision of digestive tract
- in taxon some (not Danio rerio)
- in taxon some (not Dipnomorpha)
- in taxon some Gnathostomata
- part of some foregut
- in taxon some Vertebrata
- in taxon some (not Tachyglossidae)
- in taxon some (not Chimaeriformes)
- contributes to morphology of some digestive system
- capable of some gastric acid secretion
- type D cell of stomach
- type A cell of stomach
- mucous cell of stomach
- epithelial cell of stomach
- mucosa of stomach
- wall of stomach
- epithelium of stomach
- submucosa of stomach
- forestomach-glandular stomach junction
- stomach non-glandular epithelium
- gastroduodenal junction
- zone of stomach
- gastric goblet cell
- stomach neuroendocrine cell
- stomach glandular epithelium
- stomach squamous epithelium
- stomach smooth muscle
- stomach lumen
- rugal fold of stomach
- glandular epithelial cell of stomach
- mesentery of stomach