02297nam a2200193Ia 4500999001700000003000400017005001700021008004100038082002100079100002400100245005400124260008500178502000900263520161400272700002801886856005601914942001201970952012101982  c26452d26452OSt20220826150644.0140128s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a636.0891bJOS/AN  aJose John Chungath   aAnatomy and Histology of Ruminant Stomach of Goat  aMannuthybDepartment of Anatomy, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciencesc1981  bMVSc3 aGross and microscopic anatomy of the stomach of twenty  adult goats, including blood supply and nerve supply have been investigated. Linear, weight and capacity measurements were recorded in relation  to body length and weight. The disposition of inner mucosa of various stomach compartments was also studied.

	The caudo–ventral blind sac of rumen of goat, unlike that of other ruminants, extended more caudally than the dorsal one. Dorsal coronary  grooves were absent. The right ventral coronary groove was distinct and reached the ventral border of rumen. The omasum was the smallest and oval in shape. The abomasums was  comparatively larger in goats.

	The compound stomach in adult goat weighed 3.45 percent of intact body weight. The  volume of different stomach compartments as percentage of total stomach were 73,7,2 and 18 for rumen, reticulam, omasum and abomasum respectively. The wet tissue weights of different compartments as percentage of total stomach were about 66,9,8 and 17 for rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum respectively.

	Basically, the microscopic structure of goat stomach resembled closely that of other ruminants. The forestomach had the non-glandular cutancous  mucous membrane, a connective  tissue sub mucosa,  a two layered muscular tunic and a serosa. The omasum and abomasum presented the muscularis mucosae. The  abomasum had glandular epithelium with the cardiae,fundic and pyloric regions.

	 The different compartments of stomach of goats was innervated by the dorsal and ventral branches of the vagus. The arterial supply was by the branches of  coelic artery.
  aRadhakrishnan K (Guide)  uhttp://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810144164  2ddccTH  00102ddc4070aKAUCLVbKAUCLVcTHESESd2014-03-18l0o636.0891 JOS/ANp171505r2014-03-18 00:00:00w2014-03-18yTH