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gizzard

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The muscular enlargement of the alimentary canal that has usually thick muscular walls and a tough horny lining for grinding the food and when the crop is present follows it and the proventriculus. [ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BTO_0000520 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizzard ]

Synonyms: gastric mill gigerium

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

organ_slim

external ontology notes

BTO also includes: A thickened part of the alimentary canal in some animals (as an insect or an earthworm) that is similar in function to the crop of a bird. However, we are refering to the Aves structure here.

has related synonym

ventriculus

id

UBERON:0005052

taxon notes

currently restricted to Aves, but may be found outside - e.g. Pangolins