Stomach
The stomach is a muscular, hollow, dilated part of the digestion system which functions as an important organ of the digestive tract in some animals, including vertebrates, echinoderms, insects (mid-gut), and molluscs. It is involved in the second phase of digestion, following mastication (chewing).
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Famous quotes containing the word stomach:
“The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Prithee do not turn me about, my stomach is not constant.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“... the great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)