omasus
English
editEtymology
editMisinterpretation of Latin omasum.
Noun
editomasus (plural not attested)
- The omasum.
- 1658: after a fuller mastication, and salivous mixture, what part thereof descendeth again, in a moist and succulent body, it slides down the softer and more permeable Orifice, into the Omasus or third stomack — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 192)