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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 stomach tube 名詞
 胃管

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Stom·ach n.
 1. Anat. An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.
 2. The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.
 3. Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.
 He which hath no stomach to this fight,
 Let him depart.   --Shak.
 4. Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. [Obs.]
    Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain.   --Spenser.
    This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.   --Locke.
 5. Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. [Obs.]
 He was a man
 Of an unbounded stomach.   --Shak.
 Stomach pump Med., a small pump or syringe with a flexible tube, for drawing liquids from the stomach, or for injecting them into it.
 Stomach tube Med., a long flexible tube for introduction into the stomach.
 Stomach worm Zool., the common roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach.