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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of, relating to, or associated with the stomach.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or pertaining to the stomach or belly, in the broadest sense; enteric; ventral; abdominal.
  2. 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.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of or relating to the stomach.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. relating to or involving the stomach

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gaster, "stomach") (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Digital image processing of intracellular pH in gastric oxyntic and chief cells," Nature 325, 447 – 450 (1987).”

    Roger Y. Tsien - Autobiography

  • “According to a study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the high fiber content of whole grains slows down what is called gastric emptying, or the release of glucose into the bloodstream.”

    Simon & Schuster: Lange 2010

  • “We visit the dentist to-day, we went to the nose and throat doctor yesterday, and to-morrow we go to the specialist in gastric disorders.”

    A Cure for Doctors' Bills

  • “With sleeve gastrectomy, the stomach is reduced to about 15 per cent of its original size and in stomach stapling - which is often known as gastric banding - the band contains the size of the stomach and is adjustable.”

    News round-up

  • “Researchers gave the name gastric artery chemical embolization (GACE) to the injection procedure and the injected chemical itself is called sodium morrhuate.”

    Emaxhealth

  • “** After digestion, the Komodo dragon regurgitates a mass of horns, hair, and teeth known as the gastric pellet, which is covered in malodorous mucus.”

    Archive 2009-08-02

  • “Fielding surgically constricted a teen's stomach with a procedure called gastric banding.”

    The Huffington Post: Teens' Gastric Bands Usage Raises Questions

  • “The most popular bariatric surgery these days is a procedure called gastric bypass surgery in which doctors seal off most of the stomach by stapling it, leaving just a small pouch at the top.”

    Janice Horowitz: Dueling Docs

  • “This horrid TV commercial on the Realize Gastric Band site equates the controversial stomach reduction surgery known as gastric banding with happiness, success and fulfillment.”

    GUEST POST: ANTI-FAT, ANTI-HAPPINESS AD FOR GASTRIC BAND » Sociological Images

  • “J&J and Allergan also compete in the market for obesity-surgery devices known as gastric bands.”

    The Wall Street Journal: J&J to Acquire Breast-Implant Maker

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  2. bronchial
  3. digestive
  4. pancreatic
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  2. abdominal
  3. rectal
  4. mammary
  1. pulmonary
  2. laryngeal
  3. renal
  4. testicular
  1. cutaneous
  2. cervical
  3. ovarian
  4. endocrine
  1. vaginal
  2. nasal
  3. seminal
  4. tracheal
  1. pharyngeal
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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. ranitidine
  2. omeprazole
  3. vena gastrica sinistra
  4. left gastric vein
  5. stomach
  6. infundibulum
  7. phacella
  8. gasteric
  9. pepsin
  10. plexus
  11. fibrin
  12. entogastric
  13. dyspeptone
  14. cough
  15. hemialbumose
  16. hemipeptone
  17. keratin
  18. chymification
  19. caseose
  20. cordol
  21. euchlorhydria
  22. gastrosuccorrhœa
  23. honthin
  24. hyperchlorhydria
  25. hyperpepsia
  1. hypoacidity
  2. hypochlorhydria
  3. pepsinogen
  4. peptohydrochloric
  5. test-meal
  6. platygastric
  7. rennet-ferment
  8. stomach-tooth
  9. achlorhydria
  10. acid-cell
  11. adelomorphic
  12. anachlorhydria
  13. anacidity
  14. anadenia
  15. cardol
  16. catarrhal croup
  17. chymosin
  18. result's
  19. gastro-
  20. analepsis
  21. antialbumid
  22. antipeptone
  23. gastralgia
  24. gastric digestion
  25. gastric fever
  1. chyme
  2. gasterozoöid
  3. gastral
  4. gastricism
  5. intermesenteric
  6. rennin
  7. intrinsic factor
  8. melena
  9. black vomit
  10. Beaumont
  11. gastrolith
  12. serotonin
  13. gastroesophageal reflux disease
  14. stomachic
  15. antisecretory
  16. albuminose
  17. amphopeptone
  18. enzymatic fermentation
  19. fluids of the body
  20. actinogastra
  21. truncus celiacus
  22. vena pylorica
  23. Zollinger–Ellison syndrome
  24. histamine
  25. enterogastrone
  1. gastrin
  2. penicillin v
  3. phenoxymethyl penicillin
  4. prepyloric vein
  5. bilious
  6. succus
  7. bypass
  8. genus heliobacter
  9. h. pylori
  10. heliobacter
  11. heliobacter pylori
  12. liverish
  13. livery
  14. achylia
  15. achylia gastrica
  16. arteria celiaca
  17. biliousness
  18. celiac artery
  19. celiac trunk
  20. chronic gastritis
  21. histamine blocker
  22. mesogastric
  23. metagastric
  24. metapeptone
  25. parapeptone
  1. peptic ulcer
  2. peptone
  3. phacellus
  4. propeptone
  5. proteose
  6. rennet ferment
  7. secretion
  8. stomachal
  9. trypsin
  10. action
  11. catarrh
  12. dactylozooid
  13. enterocœle
  14. ephyropsidæ
  15. gland
  16. lithistida
  17. paragastric
  18. phlebenterata
  19. phlebenterism
  20. protogastric
  21. pylorus
  22. acid-gland
  23. autodigestion
  24. ferratogen
  25. porthole
  1. prozymogen
  2. urogastric

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