Crossword-Solution: PROVENTRICULAR
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| relating to the proventriculus, the first part of a bird's stomach | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
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greedy person
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Sentences with PROVENTRICULAR (5)
The young pigeons are fed by both parents with a peculiar stuff, the product of the strongly proliferating epithelial cells of the crop, which cells undergo a cheese-like fatty degeneration, and mixed with mucus, perhaps also with the proventricular juice, make up a milk-like fluid.
The proventricular type, developed about the eighth to the eighteenth or twentieth day, is not infective; it may occur in the crop, but is not to be found permanently there.
These proventricular forms find their way to the salivary glands, wherein crithidial and encysted forms are seen.
These proventricular types work their way into the salivary ducts and thence into the salivary glands, where further development takes place.
Further investigations have shown that the proventricular plug may be channeled, but in such case valve action is lost and the contents of the stomach are regurgitated, thus making such a flea more dangerous than one with an obstructed proventriculus.