English dictionary: words starting with gast - page 1

adjective

Relating to the practice of cooking or eating good food.

Usage examples:

The hotel restaurant serves the most exclusive gastronomic delights

adjective

Relating to the practice of cooking or eating good food.

Usage examples:

The hotel restaurant serves the most exclusive gastronomic delights

adverb

In a way that relates to the preparation and eating of good food

Usage examples:

Fifty years ago, britain was probably the most gastronomically backward place on earth., gastronomi…

noun

A connoisseur of good food; a gourmet.

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Tuesday is a gastronomist's delight with a hamper and signed book by clarissa dickson wright on off…

noun

The practice or art of choosing, cooking, and eating good food.

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Far from being champions of a brave new world of gastronomy, we consume more junk food than the res…

noun

A medical condition in which the stomach does not empty properly because of a problem with nerve signals to the stomach rather than a blockage

noun

A mollusc of the large class gastropoda, such as a snail, slug, or whelk.

Usage examples:

Sponges are preyed upon by gastropods, polychaetes, asteroids, echinoids, turtles, and fishes.

plural noun

A large class of molluscs which includes snails, slugs, whelks, and all terrestrial kinds. they have a large muscular foot for movement and (in many kinds) a single asymmetrical spiral shell.

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Here we cover a few groups that seem to be very close to the crown group gastropoda (slugs + limpet…

noun

A mollusc of the large class gastropoda, such as a snail, slug, or whelk.

Usage examples:

Sponges are preyed upon by gastropods, polychaetes, asteroids, echinoids, turtles, and fishes.

noun

An optical instrument used for inspecting the interior of the stomach.

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Similarly, at the upper end of the alimentary tract, rigid instruments were used for the examinatio…

noun

A medical examination of the inside of the stomach and part of the small intestine (= the upper part of the bowels between the stomach and the large intestine) using a gastroscope (= a long, thin medical device with a light and camera)

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A gastroscopy showed duodenal ulcers., the patients all underwent routine diagnostic gastroscopy.

noun

An opening into the stomach from the abdominal wall, made surgically for the introduction of food.

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The physician inserted a gastrostomy tube into the stomach to provide additional nutritional suppor…

noun

An opening into the stomach from the abdominal wall, made surgically for the introduction of food.

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The physician inserted a gastrostomy tube into the stomach to provide additional nutritional suppor…

plural noun

A small phylum of minute aquatic wormlike animals that bear bristles and cilia. they are thought to be related to the nematode worms and rotifers.

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These are the horsehair worms or nematomorpha and the gastrotricha.

noun

An embryo at the stage following the blastula, when it is a hollow cup-shaped structure having three layers of cells.

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Using light microscopy, he concluded that the embryo underwent gastrulation and that the gastrula c…

noun

An embryo at the stage following the blastula, when it is a hollow cup-shaped structure having three layers of cells.

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Using light microscopy, he concluded that the embryo underwent gastrulation and that the gastrula c…

noun

The process by which a gastrula forms from a blastula.

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During gastrulation, cells move into the interior of the embryo