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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gastrointestinal
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
disease
▪ None was taking chronic medication or had a history of gastrointestinal disease, surgery, or diabetes mellitus.
▪ None had symptoms or a history of gastrointestinal disease or surgery or had received antibiotics in the two months before the study.
▪ Thirty four of 53 patients who had no specific symptoms or signs of gastrointestinal disease had a lesion found on investigation.
▪ Only two had both upper and lower gastrointestinal disease that might have contributed to the anaemia.
endoscopy
▪ An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy should be performed to exclude other abnormalities.
▪ This usually implies upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, ultrasound examination, and investigation for enteric pathogens.
▪ Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and colonoscopy were macroscopically normal and mucosal biopsy specimens were obtained.
▪ Each of the patients examined had been referred for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy to investigate dyspeptic symptoms.
▪ Mild and transient disseminated intravascular coagulopathy has been described, and transient bacteraemia occurs in 5-8% of patients during upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.
▪ Discussion During gastrointestinal endoscopy hypoxia is well recorded, with many different causal factors.
▪ The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of supplemental oxygen both during and after upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.
▪ Subjects and methods All patients aged over 60 years having routine upper gastrointestinal endoscopy were eligible for entry into this study.
motility
▪ We attempted to visualise the two major physiological states of upper gastrointestinal motility.
symptom
▪ No other significant association between gastrointestinal symptoms and a specific organism was found.
▪ None of the healthy volunteers were taking any drug and none reported major gastrointestinal symptoms.
▪ More recently a series of anecdotal reports suggested that colonic neoplasia might be missed in patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms or lesions.
▪ Massive haematemesis or, less commonly, melaena, without previous gastrointestinal symptoms, is the typical presentation.
▪ Overall severity of gastrointestinal symptoms influenced the final height centile as it had height velocity during the initial years of follow up.
▪ The frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms was not consistently increased in patients harbouring specific infective agents compared with non-infected patients.
▪ Therefore, we have investigated the presence and absence of different gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with and without intestinal infections.
▪ Both the basal diet and the sulphate supplement were well tolerated by all the volunteers and no gastrointestinal symptoms were reported.
tract
▪ Drinking is a safeguard, but huge amounts of water may overwhelm the gastrointestinal tract, causing cramps, bloating, nausea.
▪ It is well known the Crohn's disease is a diffuse lesion of the entire gastrointestinal tract.
▪ The remaining amount of uric acid is excreted in the biliary, pancreatic, and gastrointestinal secretions through the gastrointestinal tract.
▪ Twenty two had severe lifelong constipation and eight had symptoms suggesting a motility disorder exclusively of the upper gastrointestinal tract.
▪ Iron deficiency anaemia is commonly caused by chronic blood loss from the gastrointestinal tract.
▪ Changes in bowel habit may indicate disease of the gastrointestinal tract.
▪ Systemic amyloidosis often affects the gastrointestinal tract and may result in this condition.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Diarrhea, due to gastrointestinal disorders, infections, and even laxative abuse, may lead to substantial potassium losses.
▪ It is also found in the gastrointestinal track of man.
▪ No subject, however, complained of nausea or any other gastrointestinal tract symptoms at any time during the submaximal plateau.
▪ The effects of serotonin on gastrointestinal motor function are generally believed to be mediated through myenteric plexus neurons.
▪ The remaining amount of uric acid is excreted in the biliary, pancreatic, and gastrointestinal secretions through the gastrointestinal tract.
▪ This usually implies upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, ultrasound examination, and investigation for enteric pathogens.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gastrointestinal

Gastrointestinal \Gas`tro*in*tes"ti*nal\, a. [Gastro- + -intestinal.] (Anat. & Med.) Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gastrointestinal

1831, from gastro- + intestinal.

Wiktionary
gastrointestinal

a. Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines.

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WordNet
gastrointestinal

adj. of or relating to the stomach and intestines; "a gastrointestinal disorder" [syn: gi]

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Usage examples of "gastrointestinal".

There are eminent physicians who swear that it is no more effective than strong tea, and there are those who swear that it is effective in treating anemia, cachexia, scrofula, gastrointestinal catarrh, and malfunctions of the lungs, kidneys, liver, heart, and genital organs.

If the autonomic nervous system, which controls various functions such as heart rate, blood pressure, and intestinal movement, gets out of balance, problems within the cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems may very well occur and you may experience heart palpitations or diarrhea.

Analysis of gastrointestinal musculoskeletal, genito-urinary, hematologic, endocrine, dermatologic, and neurological systems followed.

After dozens of gastrointestinal series, electromyograms, blood tests, and CT scans, the Merced doctors began to realize that many Hmong complaints had no organic basis, though the pain was perfectly real.

Vocational Educator Larsen, or the David Larsen who paints handmade inorganic toys and designs gastrointestinal recycling worms for export to Manichean survivalists?

Fingerlike projections of gastrointestinal mucosae lining the gut, main function being absorption of nutriments.

Run: part of the Gastrointestinal work-up, a series of tests, including upper GI series with small bowel follow-through, barium enema, sigmoidoscopy, liver scan, gallbladder series etc.

Even if she had ingested spores, even if they had germinated, become bacteria, they would not be able to survive in her gastrointestinal tract.

At noon, the gastrointestinal consult reviewed the barium enema, which was normal.

There are biochemists who suspect that gastrin (one of the gastrointestinal hormones pointed out in the previous chapter, see p.

They felt the infection was somewhere in the urinary or gastrointestinal system, or perhaps even in a small area of the lungs.

Nanomachinery will keep your gastrointestinal system capable of operation, even when it is unused for long periods of time.

An American habit he found particularly satisfying was their penchant for referring to an antagonist in terms of the terminal anatomical feature of the gastrointestinal system.

The total picture was thus consistent with chronic anemia from blood loss through the gastrointestinal tract,* but the situation was more complex: A Coombs blood test was positive, suggesting that her body was also destroying red cells by an allergic mech­.

The abdominal pain was the worst, as the disease was destroying her gastrointestinal tract throughout its ten-meter length, quite literally eating the delicate tissues designed to convert food into nutrients, and dumping infected blood down toward her rectum.