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PRONUNCIATION OF GASTROLITH

gastrolith  [ˈɡæstrəlɪθ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GASTROLITH

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gastrolith is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GASTROLITH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

gastrolith

Gastrolith

A gastrolith, also called a stomach stone or gizzard stones, is a rock held inside a gastrointestinal tract. Gastroliths are retained in the muscular gizzard and used to grind food in animals lacking suitable grinding teeth. The grain size depends upon the size of the animal and the gastrolith's role in digestion. Other species use gastroliths as ballast. Particles ranging in size from sand to cobbles have been documented.

Definition of gastrolith in the English dictionary

The definition of gastrolith in the dictionary is a stone in the stomach; gastric calculus.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GASTROLITH


acrolith
ˈækrəlɪθ
batholith
ˈbæθəlɪθ
coccolith
ˈkɒkəlɪθ
coprolith
ˈkɒprəlɪθ
cystolith
ˈsɪstəlɪθ
laccolith
ˈlækəlɪθ
lopolith
ˈlɒpəlɪθ
megalith
ˈmɛɡəlɪθ
monolith
ˈmɒnəlɪθ
phytolith
ˈfaɪtəlɪθ
regolith
ˈrɛɡəlɪθ
rhabdolith
ˈræbdəlɪθ
xenolith
ˈzɛnəlɪθ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GASTROLITH

gastroduodenal
gastroduodenostomy
gastroenteric
gastroenteritic
gastroenteritis
gastroenterologist
gastroenterology
gastroenterostomies
gastroenterostomy
gastrointestinal
gastrologer
gastrological
gastrologist
gastrology
gastromancy
gastronome
gastronomer
gastronomic
gastronomical
gastronomically

WORDS THAT END LIKE GASTROLITH

aerolith
cyclolith
enterolith
eolith
granolith
microlith
neolith
oolith
otolith
palaeolith
paleolith
peristalith
phacolith
pisolith
rhinolith
sialolith
statolith
tallith
urolith
zoolith

Synonyms and antonyms of gastrolith in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «gastrolith» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GASTROLITH

Find out the translation of gastrolith to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gastrolith from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gastrolith» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

胃石
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gastrolith
570 millions of speakers

English

gastrolith
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

gastrolith
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حصاة المعدة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

gastrolith
278 millions of speakers

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gastrolith
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

gastrolith
260 millions of speakers

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gastrolith
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gastrolith
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gastrolith
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

胃石
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

gastrolith
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gastrolith
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gastrolith
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இரைப்பக்கல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गॅस्ट्रॉलीट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gastrolit
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gastrolith
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gastrolith
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

gastrolith
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gastrolith
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

gastrolith
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gastrolith
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gastrolith
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gastrolith
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gastrolith

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GASTROLITH»

The term «gastrolith» is used very little and occupies the 185.463 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GASTROLITH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «gastrolith» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «gastrolith» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gastrolith

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GASTROLITH»

Discover the use of gastrolith in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gastrolith and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Molecular Biomineralization: Aquatic Organisms Forming ...
11.4 The site and molting stage of gastrolith formation.Gastrolith is formed only at the gastrolith disk located at the frontal part of stomach. Inner wall of stomach is covered with cuticle, and gastrolith is formed between cuticle and epithelia In the  ...
W.E.G. Müller, 2011
2
Issues in Proteins and Peptides Research and Application: ...
“In the crustacean Cherax quadricarinatus, alterations of multitranscript expression patterns between intermolt and late premolt stages were identified in the hypodermis and in the gastrolith disk via a cDNA microarray. The gastrolith disk is a ...
‎2012
3
Glycoproteins—Advances in Research and Application: 2013 Edition
Chitin is the main polysaccharide and is concentrically arranged as fibrous chitin- protein lamellar structures. Although several proteins and low-molecular weight phosphorylated components have been reported to be involved in gastrolith ...
‎2013
4
The Biology and Management of Lobsters: Physiology and Behavior
Since this amber zone is also associated with a high incidence of gastrolith development (Aiken, 1973), its appearance in the pleopod tip is the first morphological indication of onset of premolt and is the criterion for pleopod stage 1.0 ...
‎1980
5
The Dodo and the Solitaire: A Natural History
Goura possesses only one large gastrolith (Ottow 1950; Verheyen 1957). Didunculus possesses numerous small stones (Beichle 1987). The gizzard of Caloenas is very muscular and lined with keratin plates. The gastrolith might have been ...
Jolyon C. Parish, 2012
6
The Hormones V1: Physiology, Chemistry and Applications
7.——Curve B shows rate of gastrolith formation following eyestalk removal in Cambarus immunis. Curve A shows inhibition of gastrolith formation in eyestalkless specimens following weekly sinus gland implants. (From Scudamore, 130.) ...
Gregory Pincus, Kenneth Vivian Thimann, 1948
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Introduction To The Study Of Zoology (the): The Crayfish
The proper wall of the stomach is continued over the outer surface of the prominence ; and, in fact, forms the outer wall of the chamber in which the gastrolith is contained, the inner wall being formed by the cuti- cular lining of the stomach.
Thomas Henry Huxley, 1987
8
Biology of the Lobster: Homarus americanus
The endocuticle begins to form on the gastrolith disc in stage C4 and the thin lamina portion of the endocuticle appears in the merus of the cheliped, but there is no thin lamina endocuticle in the carapace. In a typical 450-g lobster held at a ...
Jan Robert Factor, 1995
9
Biomineralization
At the time of its deposition, which coincides with the demineralization of the cuticle, the epidermal cells increase in height, become branched, and provide the organic matrix of the gastrolith. According to Ueno (1980), the main function of the ...
Kenneth Simkiss, Karl M. Wilbur, 1989
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Proceedings
Figure 3. Gastrolith masses of South African and German free-ranging farm ostriches. Both groups exhibit a normal distribution of data. The Kolmogorov— Smirnov test gave an asymptotic significance of 0.414 for German ostrich gastrolith mass ...
‎2007

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GASTROLITH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gastrolith is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Animals that dine on rocks to survive
When rocks are consumed by an animal, the rock takes on another name – it becomes a gastrolith. If you haunt the paleontology section of your ... «io9, May 13»
2
'Black Bart' Wasson of Calaveras County
The gold nugget pictured on the front of Wasson's book is the actual nugget in Wasson's story, “The Gold Gastrolith of Calaveras County. «Calaveras Enterprise, Mar 13»
3
Concept Art Writing Prompt: Space Dinosaurs!
She levered up her head to look up at Egg, shining in the black sky like a turquoise gastrolith. Couldn't they leave her alone for half a minute? «io9, Jun 12»
4
Dinosaur-like bird's carcass found in northwestern Iran
Scientists believe that fossil evidence demonstrates birds and dinosaurs shared many features such as hollow bones, gastrolith in the digestive ... «Payvand, May 11»
5
Squirrels That Predict the Future
No Gastric Mill in Sauropod Dinosaurs: New Evidence From Analysis of Gastrolith Mass and Function in Ostriches (Proceedings of the Royal ... «New York Times, Jan 07»

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