gastric
[gas-trik]
- pertaining to the stomach.
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Origin of gastric
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Contemporary Examples
Proper use could lead to weight loss and reduction in gastric reflux.
That could be the difference between needing a gastric tube or not or needing a wheelchair or not.
But after surgery to put a gastric band in place, he reportedly shed almost 90 pounds, and today he looks in relatively good form.
Where gastric bypass surgery requires carving up the abdomen, lap band is done via a small incision through the belly button.
His family even once fed journalists a claim that he suffered from a “gastric” problem.
Historical Examples
There was an elderly lady who insisted on telling John all about the gastric juices!
The Foolish LoversSt. John G. Ervine
Don't get excited about it; that will interfere with the gastric juices.
Fairy FingersAnna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
The only satisfactory atonement, therefore, must be gastric.
The solid parts remain, to be acted on by the gastric juice.
A Treatise on Domestic EconomyCatherine Esther Beecher
Gastric juice, the fluid which dissolves the food in the stomach.
A Treatise on Domestic EconomyCatherine Esther Beecher
gastric
- of, relating to, near, or involving the stomachgastric pains
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Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Word Origin and History for gastric
adj.
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" (cf. Greek grastis "green fodder," Latin gramen "fodder, grass," Old English cærse "cress").
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
gastric
(găs′trĭk)- Of, relating to, or associated with the stomach.
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The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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gastric
[găs′trĭk]
- Relating to or involving the stomach.
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The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
gastric
A descriptive term for things pertaining to the stomach.
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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.