foregut
noun
foregut is a noun meaning “The anterior part of the alimentary canal of an embryo, from the mouth to the duodenum, in humans and some other animals” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-E-G-U-T, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of foregut is foreguts.
What does foregut mean?
noun
- 1
The anterior part of the alimentary canal of an embryo, from the mouth to the duodenum, in humans and some other animals.
- 2
The developed counterpart in the adult: the proximal part of the alimentary canal, which in humans runs from the mouth to the first half of the duodenum, up to the ampulla of Vater.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of foregut
- foreguts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is foregut?
Foregut appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does foregut come from?
From fore- + gut.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).