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Relating to the stomach
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gastric
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to or involving the stomach; "gastric ulcer" [syn: stomachic , stomachal ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to the stomach.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gastric \Gas"tric\, a. [Gr. ?, ?, stomach: cf. F. gastrique.] Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery. Gastric digestion (Physiol.), the conversion of the albuminous portion of food in the stomach into soluble and diffusible ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, with -ic + Greek gaster (genitive gastros ) "stomach," by dissimilation from *graster , literally "eater, devourer," from gran "to gnaw, eat," from PIE root *gras- "to devour" (cognates: Greek grastis "green fodder," Latin gramen "fodder, grass," ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN acid ▪ There are no studies on the acute effect of alcohol intake on gastric acid secretion in chronic alcoholic patients. ▪ In healthy men without atrophy, gastric acid secretion is preserved with ageing and is ...
Usage examples of gastric.
Schiff asserts that casein in this state is not attacked by gastric juice, he might easily have overlooked a minute quantity of some albuminous matter, which Drosera would detect and absorb.
Still, both because of the possibility of more carb absorption than the labels let on and because of possible gastric distress, go easy, okay?
This result surprised me much, as two physiologists were of opinion that fibrocartilage would be easily digested by gastric juice.
Now, it is a remarkable fact, which affords additional and important evidence, that the ferment of Drosera is closely similar to or identical with pepsin, that none of these same substances are, as far as it is known, digested by the gastric juice of animals, though some of them are acted on by the other secretions of the alimentary canal.
And it is well known that this tissue cannot be digested by the gastric juice of animals.
I need hardly say that starch is not digested by the gastric juice of animals.
By receiving the first of the gastric flow the proteids can begin digesting without delay.
His reason for fasting, which it was impossible to combat, was that he had no gastric juice and that it was utterly useless for him to take any nutrition, as he had no means of digesting it.
The secretion of Drosera and gastric juice were both able to dissolve some element or impurity out of the globulin and haematin employed by me.
It changes proteids into peptones and proteoses, completing the work begun by the gastric juice.
The severe toxic symptoms from a whiff of cocain-spray, the acute distress from the tenth of a grain of morphin, the gastric crises and profuse urticarial eruptions following a single dose of quinin,--all are proofs of it.
On the other hand, no astronaut, regardless of the pressure we put him under, has ever developed a gastric ulcer.
Andi Niels, a solemn young man with a gastric ulcer which, together with a certain amount of string-pulling by the Burgomaster, had released him from Army service.
Late researches have demonstrated that the pancreatic juice exerts a powerful effect on albuminous matters, not unlike that of the gastric juice.
Teeth, 100 Bones, 130 Cartilage, 550 Muscles, 750 Ligaments, 768 Brain, 789 Blood, 795 Synovial fluid, 805 Bile, 880 Milk, 887 Pancreatic juice, 900 Urine, 936 Lymph, 960 Gastric juice, 975 Perspiration, 986 Saliva, 995 THE NATURAL DRINK OF MAN.