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Word definitions for gastritis in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1806, medical Latin, from gastro- + -itis . Coined by French pathologist François-Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages (1706-1767).

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE active ▪ In contrast, antral tumours mainly arose from mucosa showing the changes of chronic active gastritis . ▪ The strong association between antral tumours and chronic active gastritis suggests the possibility ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gastritis \Gas*tri"tis\, n. [NL., from. Gr. ?, ?, stomach + -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. inflammation of the lining of the stomach; nausea and loss of appetite and discomfort after eating

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gastritis is inflammation of the lining of the stomach . It may occur as a short episode or may be of a long duration. The most common symptom is upper abdominal pain . Other symptoms include nausea and vomiting , bloating, loss of appetite and heartburn ...

Usage examples of gastritis.

While living with Urquhart, Boyes has three attacks of illness, attributed by his doctor to gastritis, but equally consistent with arsenical poisoning.

Even assuming that their special malaises are wholly offset by the effects of alcoholism in the male, they suffer patently from the same adenoids, gastritis, cholelithiasis, nephritis, tuberculosis, carcinoma, arthritis and so on--in short, from the same disturbances of colloidal equilibrium that produce religion, delusions of grandeur, democracy, pyaemia, night sweats, the yearning to save humanity, and all other such distempers in men.

Bristow, at Whitehall lane, London: Carr, Stoke Newington, of gastritis and heart disease: Cockburn, at the Moat house, Chepstow .

Three sets of coincidences — as you may perhaps think them to be — Harriet Vane and Philip Boyes meet ‘towards the end of March,’ and he has an attack of gastritis on March 31st.

Weare formed the opinion that the cause of death was acute gastritis, and we need not blame them for coming to this conclusion, because it was quite consistent both with the symptoms of the illness and with the past history of the patient.

Right at this moment Molinari is in Cheyenne suffering from a massive attack of acute gastritis –.

Ferrars died of acute gastritis, helped on by habitual overindulgence in alcoholic beverages.

He died of acute gastritis brought on by questionable oysters and Booth&rsquo.

The defence was that the prescription had been properly filled, but that the child was the victim of various diseases, from acute gastritis to cerebro-spinal meningitis.

Jack Smith, the Fluxion an critic, looking like an undertaker with chronic gastritis.

He called “tidbit-itis” the cases of enteritis or gastritis due to too many carbohydrates, especially sugar.

Taken unsweetened, three times a day, Elm Food gives excellent results in gastritis, gastric catarrh, mucous colitis and enteritis, being tolerated by the stomach when all other foods fail, and is of great value in bronchitis, bleeding from the lungs and consumption (being most healing to the lungs), soothing a cough and building up and preventing wasting.