Stomach \Stom"ach\, n. [OE. stomak, F. estomac, L. stomachus, fr. Gr. sto`machos stomach, throat, gullet, fr. sto`ma a mouth, any outlet or entrance.] 1. (Anat.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See {Digestion}, and {Gastric juice}, under {Gastric}.
2. The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef. --Shak.
3. Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.
He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. --Shak.
Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain. --Spenser.
This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent. --Locke.
5. Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. [Obs.]
He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. --Shak.
{Stomach pump} (Med.), a small pump or syringe with a flexible tube, for drawing liquids from the stomach, or for injecting them into it.
{Stomach tube} (Med.), a long flexible tube for introduction into the stomach.
{Stomach worm} (Zo["o]l.), the common roundworm ({Ascaris lumbricoides}) found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach.
Stomach \Stom"ach\, v. i. To be angry. [Obs.] --Hooker.
Stomach \Stom"ach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stomached}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stomaching}.] [Cf. L. stomachari, v.t. & i., to be angry or vexed at a thing.] 1. To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. --Shak.
The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront. --L'Estrange.
The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it. --Milton.
2. To bear without repugnance; to brook. [Colloq.]
Stuart, who was shot in the stomach, provided a description of an assailant, and the crime riveted the nation as a chilling example of urban violence.
The prey in their twice-monthly meals, he noted, ends up in the common stomach.
The gunmen shot him once in the stomach and fled empty-handed.
Democratic presidential candidate Jesse Jackson denied Saturday that he had been hospitalized, although a campaign spokesman said he had been treated in San Francisco, possibly for a stomach ailment.
He was hospitalized at St. Mary Desert Valley Hospital after complaining of stomach pain.
Victims of gastrointestinal anthrax, in which the disease infects the stomach and intestines, died within a two days of toxic shock, Nikiforov said.
An army marches on its stomach, Napoleon supposedly remarked, but senators say a 15-page set of specifications for government issue cookies may be carrying the concern with rations too far.
The press coverage has been very hurtful: it's a bit like taking a blow in the stomach because of the way it's been conducted, certainly from the other side.
The cub was placed in an incubator, fed a special formula through a tube into its stomach and given antibiotics to fight the infection, officials said.
'It bores me even to think of such a trip, not that I mind luxury and lashings of delicious food and starting to drink at 11am with a glass of champagne to steady the stomach.
"The knot left everybody's stomach" as the ship came up, he said.
It said Yisraeli was shot in the leg and stomach and began losing large amounts of blood.
The mayor ordered 11 photographs in a Vietnam War exhibit that made some people "literally sick to their stomach" moved from City Hall lobbies to a less traveled corridor, an official said Friday.
To endure the wild ride in volatile futures markets, they need stoic patience, a strong stomach and the ability to sleep when their accounts are substantially under water.
He has sucked fat off his wife's stomach and neck, and his 11-year-old daughter has already inquired about the procedure.
H. pylori is thought to multiply the risk of stomach cancer by six, but is only one of several factors - diet and blood group are also important.
The acting president said that when it was believed the cancer was limited to the stomach "there was a tendency to operate.
So what hope is there for most stomach cancer sufferers?
However, it can cause stomach irritation and bleeding and perhaps a rare childhood disorder called Reye's syndrome.
Villagers said an elderly man was struck in the face with a gun and an 18-year-old was shot in the stomach.
The 5-year-old boy died after he was hit with plastic bullets in the chest, stomach and left hand as he played in a schoolyard near his home, according to officials at Al Ittihad Hospital.
Pepper, 88, died of stomach cancer Tuesday at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington.
"If people are going to come to our shows, they've got to have a strong mind and stomach.
Kathryne Grove, who witnessed one of the ducks being run down, said: "I was sick at my stomach.
Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte began his fourth day in a Washington hospital today, where doctors are trying to decide how best to treat his liver and stomach cancer.
The toxin would only be activated inside the alkaline stomach of the borer, a kind of caterpillar, after it eats the treated plant tissue.
One hypothesis is that a chain of sugars found only in type A blood may help H. pylori attach itself to the stomach lining. It is not yet known whether eradicating H. pylori affects gastric cancer (as opposed to lymphoma).
And it is this ugly truth that the government can't stomach." South serves a readership of about 15,000, primarily in the Cape Town area.
"I felt like being hit in the stomach with a shovel," he said. "I thought I was dying.
More seriously, scientists believe Shanghai's high rates of stomach, liver and esophagal cancer are linked to poor water quality.