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Before I answer this question.I would like to ask you why your name is called as your name? Why mom is called mom? Why dad is called dad? Why earth is called Earth? and why people are called people?

It is just because it is how stomach is named :)

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14y ago

An organ is a collection of tissues that perform a certain function. The stomach is made up of the following tisuues: * epithelial tissue * muscle tissue * nerve tissue and * connective tissue Therefore, the stomach is an organ because it is made up of a collection tissues that perform a specific function, that is, to aid digestion (breaking down large, insoluble and complex food substances into small soluble particles).

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12y ago

ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French estomac, stomaque, viaLatin from Greek stomakhos'gullet,' from stoma 'mouth.' The early sense of the verb was [be offended at, resent] (early 16th cent.).

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16y ago

According to Webster's Dictionary, it is baby-talk alteration of stomach.

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10y ago

This word, coined in the 1860s, is used when it is important to communicate with children.

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4y ago

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