Even within the insect realm, creatures like grasshoppers and cockroaches boast a gizzard organ, or proventriculus, where ...

Rectum exits body. Four functions of digestive system occur in different places. Proventriculus dumps fluid and acid into food just before it enters gizzard. Gizzard: muscles (almost 1 cm thick) and ...

Proben, meanwhile, comes from a chicken organ called proventriculus, a component that is in many ways similar to chicken gizzard. It's coated in flour or cornstarch, then deep-fried until it ...

Organs palpable in the ventral coelem include the liver, ventriculus, and proventriculus. The coelemic pressure created by the mass resulted in pressure and displacement of the abdominal viscera.