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ingluviolith

ingluviolith noun: a foreign body in the crop of a bird.

Noun

ingluviolith (plural ingluvioliths)

  1. A foreign body in the crop of a bird.
    • Commonly indicated for treatment of sour crop (Fig. 11-11, A), an ingluviotomy is done to retrieve crop calculi, ingluvioliths, or foreign bodies (which are not accessible per os) or to retrieve proventricular or ventricular foreign bodies (using micromagnets [glued in place within plastic tubes]...2015, Jaime Samour, Avian Medicine, page 297

Forms of ingluviolith

pluralingluvioliths

Origin of ingluviolith

From ingluvies + -o- + -lith.

Questions about ingluviolith

What does ingluviolith mean?
Ingluviolith means a foreign body in the crop of a bird.
What part of speech is ingluviolith?
Ingluviolith is a noun.
What is the plural of ingluviolith?
The plural of ingluviolith is ingluvioliths.

Words near ingluviolith in the dictionary

  1. inglutted
  2. inglutting
  3. ingluvial
  4. ingluvies
  5. ingluvin
  6. ingluviolith
  7. ingluvioliths
  8. ingluviotomies
  9. ingluviotomy
  10. ingluvious
  11. ingo

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