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- alll the viscera of the abdomen. Use, to contain and strengthen th 
abdominal viscera, and to exhale a vapour to lubricate them. 
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THE CAUL. ( Omenium.) 
__ A fatty membrane, a production of the lining membrane, attache 
to the stomach, and lying on the anterior surface of the intestin 
Divided, into large and smail caul. The former hangs pendulous: 
from the great curvature of the stomach. The small caul fills up 
the space between the small curvature of. the stomach, liver, &¢. 
Immediately behind the biliary ducts there is an opening which will _ 
admit the finger, called the Winslow-hole. The arteries are branehes 
Of the belly artery ; the veins empty into the gate vein. Use, 
: lubricate the intestines, keepthem warm, and to preserve them from 
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STOMACH. = RUS 
_ A membranous receptacle, which receives the undigested food 
- from the gullet; situated in the upper belly region. Divided, when 
* empty, into a front and back surface ; a great and little curvature; 
upper orifice, and lower orifice. It is connected with the gullet, dud 
denum, or second stomach, caul, and pancreas ; composed of three 
membranes, or coats, viz: a common, muscular, and villous, coat. — 
_ ™ Arteries, branches of the belly art 
_ Rerves, branches of the eighth pair. 
_ Curvature terminate in the chest duct, 
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ito the second stomach. 
DIGESTION. 
S Digestion, or chymification is the ch i i ' 
— ~<a -Sorsgppemtnce ange which food undergoes 
: Spoesesech, by which it is converted ite a pulpy mass, called 
eee circumstances necessary to effect a healthy digestion of food, 
First. A certain de 
‘gree of heat in the stomach. 
A free mixture of saliva with the food in the mouth. 
Ac cnet tnnuty of healthy gastric juice. he 
beatings... ‘Fr worm-like motion of the sto- 
Pcp of the contraction and re 
_ particles of food Ste sof gm. From these circumstances, 
°: nixed into / e@ softened : 
cavity of the abdomen, raion je® longer than the body, in the: 
DY Orie sbdomes, variously contorted from these Oink 
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