Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . at fewest three, and usually four divisions. Thusin the sheep or ox, the cardiac portion of the stomach is difter-entiated into the enormous rumen, or paunch, and the reticulum,or honey-comb stomach, with which it communicates. After thefodder has been chewed again, it passes readily into the third divis-ion, the psalterium, or manyplies, which acts as a filter, and onlyallows the finely-comminuted portions of the food to enter thehighly glandular abomasum, or rennet stomach, in which gastricjuice is secreted, and p
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . at fewest three, and usually four divisions. Thusin the sheep or ox, the cardiac portion of the stomach is difter-entiated into the enormous rumen, or paunch, and the reticulum,or honey-comb stomach, with which it communicates. After thefodder has been chewed again, it passes readily into the third divis-ion, the psalterium, or manyplies, which acts as a filter, and onlyallows the finely-comminuted portions of the food to enter thehighly glandular abomasum, or rennet stomach, in which gastricjuice is secreted, and proteid digestion goes on. Tile existing groups of ruminants are the Tragululce, the Goty-lophora, and the Gamelidce. The Tragulidm (sometimes erroneousliytermed musk-deer) are the least differentiated forms, and showinteresting affinities to the non-ruminants. The Cutylophora, in-cluding the ox and deer tribe (Bovidse and Cervid;e), are the cen-tral family, which are broadly distinguished by the cotyledonaryplacenta and the structure of theu- horns; those of the Cervidse22. being naked, deciduous, and annually renewed processes of thefrontal bones; while those of most Bovida; (sheep, antelopes, oxen,buftaloes) are non-deciduous processes of the frontal bones, cov-ered by the thickened and hai-dened epidermis known as in one sub-family, the giraffes, the horns arise as separate os-sifications, and are covered by hairy skin. The third family, the Camelidie, are aberrant ruminants. Theywalk on broad integumentary cushions, developed below thephalanges of the third and fourth toes, which are alone developed,the nails not forming hoofs. Large pointed canines are presentin each jaw. The stomach has a characteristic structure. Theplacenta is diffused. There are only two existing gi-oups—theCamels of the Old World, and the Llamas of the New. See Ruminantia, Bovid^, Deer: also Hog, Hippopotamus;Antelope, Sheep, Ox, Buffalo, Giraffe, Camel, Llama,Alpaca, &c. AKTOCARPACE^, a na
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