Definition of "ingluvial"
ingluvial
adjective
not comparable
(zoology) Of or pertaining to the ingluvies or crop of birds or other animals.
Quotations
The ingluvial content was removed by ingluviotomy and analyzed.
1993, J.T. Lumeij, Ina Westerhof, T. Smit, T. J. Spierenburg, “Diagnosis and treatment of Poisoning in Raptors from the Netherlands”, in Patrick Thomas Redig, John E. Cooper, J. David Remple, D. Bruce Hunter, editors, Raptor Biomedicine, page 234
In the praying mantis, Mantis religiosa (Mantodea) and the embians, Adelembia sp. and Heoembia sp. (Embioptera), a single dorsal oesophageal nerve, which sends numerous side branches along its entire course, terminates in the ingluvial ganglion.
2012, M. Lehane, P. Billingsley, Biology of the Insect Midgut, page 63