The third stomach is called the omasum, which means book, and though I could see how someone looking might see pages, for me, the deep longitudinal folds of this stomach were drapes made of terrycloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Body of a Cow] Reference

  The third stomach is called the omasum, which means book, and though I could see how someone looking might see pages, for me, the deep longitudinal folds of this stomach were drapes made of terrycloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Body of a Cow] Reference

(The omasum of ruminants is represented only by a rudimentary area.).    From Wordnik.com.  [26 Mouse Deer] Reference

The four compartments into which it is divided are the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum or true stomach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

The different forms of acute indigestion are bloating, overloading of the rumen and impaction of the omasum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

Next, food passes to the omasum, which absorbs more nutrients and further reduces the particle size and water content.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deer Professor Karl V.] Reference

Every part except the omasum, even including a rudimentary reticulum, is represented and occupies the same relative position.    From Wordnik.com.  [11 The Bearded Pig] Reference

The most important function of the rumen and omasum is the maceration of the fibrous substances, and the digestion of the cellulose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

(The only item on the menu I didn't recognized was "beef omasum," which, for those as unlearned in the language of offal as I am, is tripe.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Serious Eats: New York] Reference

There’s a liturgical sound to our names for her stomachs—omasum, abomasum, reticulum—and in old words for these parts, you can hear a certain reverence: king’s-hood, the second stomach, and psalterium, the third.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dirty Life] Reference

Having completely comminuted and blended this mouthful, it is swallowed a second time; but instead of returning to the paunch or reticulum, it passes through another valve into a side cavity, — the omasum, where, after a maceration in more saliva for some hours, it glides by the same contrivance into the fourth pouch, — the abomasum, an apartment in all respects analogous to the ordinary stomach of animals, and where the process of digestion, begun and carried on in the previous three, is here consummated, and the nutrient principle, by means of the bile, eliminated from the digested aliment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference