Gastric

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  • adjective. Of, relating to, or associated with the stomach.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to the stomach or belly, in the broadest sense; enteric; ventral; abdominal.
  • Of or pertaining to any part or organ like or likened to a stomach or belly, as the foot of a mollusk, etc. Also gasteric.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach.
  • adjective. the conversion of the albuminous portion of food in the stomach into soluble and diffusible products by the solvent action of gastric juice.
  • adjective. a fever attended with prominent gastric symptoms; -- a name applied to certain forms of typhoid fever; also, to catarrhal inflammation of the stomach attended with fever.
  • adjective. a thin, watery fluid, with an acid reaction, secreted by a peculiar set of glands contained in the mucous membrane of the stomach. It consists mainly of dilute hydrochloric acid and the ferment pepsin. It is the most important digestive fluid in the body, but acts only on proteid foods.
  • adjective. a form of remittent fever with pronounced stomach symptoms.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of or relating to the stomach.
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  • adjective. relating to or involving the stomach
  • Word Usage
    ""Digital image processing of intracellular pH in gastric oxyntic and chief cells," Nature 325, 447 – 450 (1987)."
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