gastric juice

American  

noun

1. the digestive fluid, containing pepsin and other enzymes, secreted by the glands of the stomach.

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gastric juice British  

noun

1. a digestive fluid secreted by the stomach, containing hydrochloric acid, pepsin, rennin, etc

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gastric juice Scientific  

1. A fluid secreted by glands lining the inside of the stomach. It contains hydrochloric acid and enzymes, such as pepsin, that aid in digestion.

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Etymology

Origin of gastric juice

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

Extraction rates, referring to how much of a substance is released when exposed to gastric juice, ranged from 0.11% to 7.33%.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2025

The partially digested food and gastric juice mixture is called chyme.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

By 1904, the venture was selling more than three thousand flagons of gastric juice annually, Todes writes, and the profits helped increase the lab budget by about seventy per cent.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2014

They also drained gastric juice from the stomachs of nine dolphins, which didn't hurt the animals.

From Science Magazine • May 1, 2013

The fluid at the bottom of the well is secreted by the plant, and seems to have somewhat the action of a gastric juice in disintegrating the insects submerged in it.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth