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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the large peripheral cells of the mucous membrane of the stomach that secrete hydrochloric acid.
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- noun physiology Any of the
cells in the lining of thestomach that producehydrochloric acid
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