Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rendering acid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol.) Acid; producing acid; -- applied especially to certain glands and cells in the stomach.
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- adjective immunology Producing
acid .
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Examples
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"Digital image processing of intracellular pH in gastric oxyntic and chief cells," Nature 325, 447 – 450 (1987).
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The gastric glands are of three kinds: (a) pyloric, (b) cardiac, and (c) fundus or oxyntic glands.
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These are known as the parietal or oxyntic cells, and they are connected with the lumen by fine channels which run into their substance.
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In the alimentary tract coffee seems to stimulate the oxyntic cells and slightly to increase the secretion of hydrochloric acid, as well as to favor intestinal peristalsis.
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