ingluvial

English

Adjective

ingluvial (not comparable)

1. (zoology) Of or pertaining to the ingluvies or crop of birds or other animals.

   ingluvial hypomotility

   ingluvial ganglion

   ingluvial nerve

   • 1993, J.T. Lumeij, Ina Westerhof, T. Smit, T. J. Spierenburg, “Diagnosis and treatment of Poisoning in Raptors from the Netherlands”, in Patrick Thomas Redig, John E. Cooper, J. David Remple, D. Bruce Hunter, editors, Raptor Biomedicine, page 234:

     The ingluvial content was removed by ingluviotomy and analyzed.

   • 2007, Prakash Puranik, Asha Bhate, Animal Forms And Functions: Invertebrata, page 321:

     The occipital gan glion connects the endocrine glands the recurrent nerve runs upto the ingluvial ganglion above the crop.

   • 2012, M. Lehane, P. Billingsley, Biology of the Insect Midgut, page 63:

     In the praying mantis, Mantis religiosa (Mantodea) and the embians, Adelembia sp. and Heoembia sp. (Embioptera), a single dorsal oesophageal nerve, which sends numerous side branches along its entire course, terminates in the ingluvial ganglion.

   • 2016, Jennifer E. Graham, Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Avian, page 153:

     Ingluvial hypomotility is a relatively common clinical concern observed in a large number of avian species.

References

• “ingluvial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.