Crossword clues for peptic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peptic \Pep"tic\, n.
An agent that promotes digestion.
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pl. The digestive organs.
Is there some magic in the place, Or do my peptics differ?
--Tennyson.
Peptic \Pep"tic\, a. [L. pepticus, Gr. ?. See Pepsin.]
Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.
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Able to digest. [R.]
Tolerably nutritive for a mind as yet so peptic.
--Carlyle. (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to pepsin; resembling pepsin in its power of digesting or dissolving albuminous matter; containing or yielding pepsin, or a body of like properties; as, the peptic glands.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Latin pepticus, from Greek peptikos "able to digest," from peptos "cooked, digested," verbal adjective of peptein "to cook" (see cook (n.)).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, pertaining to, capable of, or aiding digestion 2 Of or pertaining to pepsin n. 1 An agent that promotes digestion. 2 (context in the plural English) The digestive organs.
WordNet
adj. relating to or promoting digestion; "peptic juices"
Wikipedia
Peptic is an adjective that refers to any part of the body that normally has an acidic lumen, or is related to or promotes digestion. 'Peptic' is medical and veterinary terminology, most often used in the context of humans.
Usage examples of "peptic".
Sir Giles studied the menu wistfully and tried to think what to recommend for someone with a peptic ulcer.
Maud with which Lord Leakham had attempted to soothe the spasms of his peptic ulcer.
Into this duct the ranks of cells around it pour out the peptic juice.
In the Pacific he was in the thick of it and came out with dizzy spells from head wounds and also a peptic ulcer from anxiety.
I was a little surprised at the liberty That Boy had taken in introducing an extra peptic element at our table, reflecting as I did that a certain number of avoirdupois ounces of nutriment which the visitor would dispose of corresponded to a very appreciable pecuniary amount, so that he was levying a contribution upon our Landlady which she might be inclined to complain of.
Orrin had a peptic ulcer and always held his mouth like he was just about to spit.
Lew Michelson was a big heavy man with tired blue eyes, an expression of benign cynicism and a peptic ulcer that absorbed much of his attention.
The path report on the ulcer substantiated a preop diagnosis of peptic disease.
Lately a famous authority has found that it somewhat retards the process of peptic transmogrification, though only slightly in the case of ham and eggs, the inhibitory effects being due entirely to the tannic acid and the favorable ones to the caffeine.
He was a big, dour-faced individual who looked as if he had a peptic ulcer.
A general practitioner for the first time in his career, David suddenly found himself treating asthma, roseola, croup, enlarged prostate, insomnia, and peptic ulcers.
Killgore wondered if she had a genetic abnormality in her upper GI maybe some vulnerability to peptic ulcer disease?
She was giving the Soviet Bear a peptic ulcer, hopefully a bleeding one that wouldn't be fixed by drinking milk and taking Rolaids.
The Winnebago dealer had a preexisting GI complaint, peptic ulcer disease, which, though controlled by an over-the-counter medication, gave Ebola an easy target.
He had been reacting on a gut level up to this point, charging about like a wild boar with a peptic ulcer.