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cud. In this process the sodden food is returned in rounded 

 boluses from the rumen to the mouth, and there undergoes 

 mastication. When fully masticated it is swallowed again in a 



FIG. 1211. Stomach of Ruminant opened to show the internal structure, a, oesophagus; 

 b, rumen ; c, reticulum ; d, psalterium ; e, abomasum ; /, duodenum. (After Flower and 

 Lydekker.) 



semi-fluid condition, and passes along the groove into the reti- 

 culum, or over the unmasticated food contained in the latter 

 chamber,|to strain through between the leaves of the psalterium 

 and enter the 

 abomasum, where 

 the process of 

 digestion goes on. 

 In some Kumi- 

 nants the psalter- 

 ium is wanting. 

 In the Camels g 

 (Fig. 1210, G) the 

 stomach is not so 

 complicated as in 

 the more typical 

 Ruminants, there 

 being also no dis- 

 tinct psalterium, 

 and the rumen 

 being devoid of 

 villi ; both the 

 rumen and the re- 

 ticulum have con- 

 nected with them 

 a number of pouch- 

 like diverticula 

 (w. z.), the openings of which are capable of being closed^by 

 sphincter muscles ; in these water is stored. In the Cetacea the 

 stomach is also divided into compartments. In the Porpoise 



Fio. 1212. Diagrammatic section of the stomach of the 

 Porpoise, a, oesophagus; b, left or cardiac compartment; 

 c, middle compartment ; d and e, the two divisions of the 

 right, or pyloric compartmentl; /, pylorus ; g, duodenum, 

 dilated at its commencement ; h, bile-duct. (After Flower 

 and Lydekker.) 



