ingluviolith

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noun

A foreign body in the crop of a bird.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nouningluviolith (plural ingluvioliths)

plural ingluvioliths

  1. A foreign body in the crop of a bird.
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    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], lavage, or endoscopy) and for the placement of an ingluviotomy or proventriculotomy tube or the collection of crop wall biopsies.

    2015, Jaime Samour, Avian Medicine, page 297

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