MadSci Network: Zoology
Query:

Re: Why can't horses throw-up?

Date: Wed Nov 17 15:03:52 1999
Posted By: John Buckwalter, Professor, Physical and Life Sciences, SUNY College of Technology, Alfred, NY
Area of science: Zoology
ID: 942798711.Zo
Message:

My sources don't agree that "horses can't throw-up". Vomiting in horses 
(and cows) apparently is rare, but does occur occasionally when the stomach 
is very full--stretched beyond its normal capacity.

For a comprehensive page on the physiology of vomiting see:

       
http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/stomach/vomiting.html 



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