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ru·men

 (ro͞o′mən)
n. pl. ru·mi·na (-mə-nə) or ru·mens
The first division of the stomach of a ruminant animal, in which most food collects immediately after being swallowed and from which it is later returned to the mouth as cud for thorough chewing. Also called paunch.
[Latin rūmen; akin to Sanskrit romantha-, ruminant, chewing the cud.]
ru′mi·nal adj.
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rumen

(ˈruːmɛn)
n, pl -mens or -mina (-mɪnə)
(Zoology) the first compartment of the stomach of ruminants, behind the reticulum, in which food is partly digested before being regurgitated as cud
[C18: from Latin: throat, gullet]
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ru•men

(ˈru mɪn)

n., pl. -mi•na (-mə nə)
1. the first stomach of a ruminant, in which food is softened and then regurgitated for cud-chewing.
2. the cud of a ruminant.
[1720–30; < Latin rūmen]
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ru·men

(ro͞o′mən)
The first and largest division of the stomach in ruminant animals, in which the food is fermented by microorganisms. See more at ruminant.
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Noun1.rumen - the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing
first stomach
ruminant - any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
stomach, tum, tummy, breadbasket - an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
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Rumen fluid samples were collected from 9 lambs of each group, before the morning feeding and 3 and 6 hours after the feeding.
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In this technique, it is indicated to use rumen fluid diluted with buffer solutions, and the values obtained for C[H.sub.4] production have good correlation with respirometric methods (BLUMEL et al., 1997; RYMER et al., 1999, 2005; BHATTA et al., 2006, 2008; STORM et al., 2012).
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There are several solutions to control the release of NH3 in rumen such as binding urea to calcium chloride (Huntington et al., 2006), encapsulating urea with oil (Garrett et al., 2005), or polymer (Lizarazo et al., 2014).
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We summarized that oil and rumen inert-fats feeding increased milk production and milk fat yield compared with no fat addition in lactating dairy buffalo.
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Several techniques have been used to determine volatile fatty acids (VFA) absorption in vivo, such as the collection of portal blood (1); intraruminal infusion of radioactive (2) or stable VFA isotopes (3, 4); rumen evacuation and infusion of VFA into the washed ventral sac (5); continuous infusion of nonlabeled VFA into the intact ruminal digesta (6); and pulse-dose of valeric acid plus a marker of fluid passage (7) which may be mixed with the evacuated digesta (8) or mixed in locus (9).
Determinacion del aclaramiento de acidos grasos volatiles en digesta ruminal intacta

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