The muscular enlargement of the alimentary canal that has usually thick muscular walls and a tough horny lining for grinding the food and when the crop is present follows it and the proventriculus. [ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BTO_0000520 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizzard ]
Term information
- MESH:D005895
- NCIT:C77615
- GAID:1238
- null:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C1510668
- null:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizzard
- UMLS:C1510668 (ncithesaurus:Gizzard)
- BTO:0000520
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- The muscular enlargement of the alimentary canal that has usually thick muscular walls and a tough horny lining for grinding the food and when the crop is present follows it and the proventriculus.
- BTO also includes: A thickened part of the alimentary canal in some animals (as an insect or an earthworm) that is similar in function to the crop of a bird. However, we are refering to the Aves structure here.
- gastric mill
- gigerium
- uberon
- ventriculus
- UBERON:0005052
- currently restricted to Aves, but may be found outside - e.g. Pangolins
Term relations
- stomach
- only in taxon some Aves
- has part some pyloric gastric gland
- part of some digestive tract