stomach tube (stumaktub)

A long flexible tube to be introduced into the stomach, through the gullet, as for washing out the stom IMG:content-2181.png:[blocks in formation] Stomapoda (stō-map'ō-da), n. pl. [NL., shaped like a stomatopod, especially of the ge nus Squilla. in entomology certain gate, somewhat flatfened larve which have the abdomen wider than the thorax, long antennæ, and six legs, the anterior pair being large and raptorial. In aquatic species the body is furnished with lateral false gills. The larvæ of Ephemera are examples of this form. stomapodous (stō-map'ō-dus), a. [