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Duodenal

Duodenal \Du`o*de"nal\, a. [Cf. F. duod['e]nal.] Of or pertaining to the duodenum; as, duodenal digestion.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
duodenal

1817; see duodenum + -al (1).

Wiktionary
duodenal

a. of or pertaining to the duodenum- the first part of the small intestine.

WordNet
duodenal

adj. in or relating to the duodenum; "duodenal ulcer"

Usage examples of "duodenal".

Starbuck glanced at his watch again and mentioned, "We have a duodenal in twelve in minutes, Claudia.

Thinking about the UN made his stomach rumble, and his onetime duodenal ulcer began to burn way down in his left side, almost at the groin.

They suggested, however, that perforated small bowel, duodenal lesion, pancreatitis, and a number of other possibilities remained, and ad­vised an upper GI series of X rays.

For example, a typical discussion about a case of stress duodenal ulcer might have the visit first asking the anatomy of the four parts of the duode­num.

Starbuck glanced at his watch again and mentioned, “We have a duodenal in twelve in minutes, Claudia.

He came on to the ward to take a look at a suspected duodenal ulcer which would probably need operation, and instead of leaving at once he followed Phyllida to her office, shut the door behind him and asked her quietly: "What's this I hear about you leaving?

The nurse had just left the ward, her arms full of the diabetic's toffees, the duodenal ulcer's iced buns and the bunch of bananas given to a nasty case of colitis, when there was a loud rumbling which became a roar of sound as one side of the ward seemed to shake and quiver and become submerged in a cloud of dust and broken glass and falling plaster.

Solomon’s duodenal ulcer was the only thing that could make him stop thinking about work.

An infuriated Bolivian policeman is supposed to have admitted that before he could stop himself he found he was telling the Jampot about his own trouble with a duodenal ulcer.

Take a dose of March's Duodenal Balm, and in a few minutes you'll be mooing like a contented cow .

For example, a typical discussion about a case of stress duodenal ulcer might have the visit first asking the anatomy of the four parts of the duode­.

The X-rays would confirm or deny the suspicion that flourishing in the Bladwick interior was a duodenal ulcer.

The glossy color enlargement showed a duodenal ulcer as large as the planet Jupiter.

As McAllister's luck would have it, a visiting party official from Peking had been admitted to the Kiang Wu Hospital with a bleeding duodenal ulcer.

I had a duodenal ulcer and suffered horribly from it from the age of twenty-nine to the age of fifty-eight, when I finally had a partial gastroectomyjust a few years before it was discovered that ulcers were microbial in nature and could be treated by antibiotics.