The Stomach
The stomach is the principal organ of digestion. It is the most dilated part of the alimentary canal, and is situated between the termination of the esophagus and the commencement of the small intestine. Its form is somewhat pyriform with the large end (fundus) directed upward and the small end bent to the right. It is situated in the left hypochondriae and epigastric regions, and is placed, in part, immediately behind the anterior wall of the abdomen and beneath the Diaphragm. Viewing the stomach from in front it appears that the right margin of the esophagus is continued downward as the upper tow-third of this border bending sharply backward and to the right, to complete the smaller curvature. The greater curvature begin at the left border of the termination of the esophagus in a somewhat acute angle; it lies in contact for some distance, and then sweeps downward with a convexity to the left and continued across the middle line of the body, finally turns upward and backward, to t...