Gastric - English meaning

adjective

Relating to the abdomen.

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Abdominal pain

noun

An abdominal muscle.

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Pilates greatly benefits the lower abdominals

adjective

In, forming, or relating to the abdomen

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Abdominal pains, a membrane covers the abdominal cavity., this exercise works your abdominal muscles.

adjective

Relating to the abdomen.

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Iron is absorbed in the proximal small intestine, where celiac manifestations are most prominent; h…

noun

A person with coeliac disease.

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Staples such as bread, pasta and flour can be obtained on prescription and many coeliacs can eat a …

noun

A person who has coeliac disease, a medical condition which means they cannot digest gluten (= a substance found in some grains) well

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If you are a coeliac, all the dishes marked gf are suitable as they are gluten-free., coeliacs have…

adjective

Of the duodenum (= the part of the small bowel the stomach empties into)

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Duodenal ulcer

adjective

Relating to or occurring in the intestines.

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The complexity of the enteric nervous system

adjective

Relating to the stomach and the colon.

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The gastrocolic and hepatogastric ligaments are seen in this section.

adjective

Relating to or affecting the intestine.

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The intestinal tract

adjective

Relating to the intestines (= a long tube through which food travels from the stomach and out of the body while it is being digested)

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Intestinal surgery, foul-smelling brown vomit can be a symptom of low intestinal obstruction.

noun

The internal organ in which the major part of the digestion of food occurs, being (in humans and many mammals) a pear-shaped enlargement of the alimentary canal linking the oesophagus to the small intestine.

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Severe stomach pains

verb

Consume (food or drink) without feeling or being sick.

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If you cannot stomach orange juice, try apple juice

noun

An organ in the body where food is digested

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I used to watch the tv news all the time, but i no longer have the stomach for it., vernon was simp…

adjective

Promoting the appetite or assisting digestion.

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A few medicinal properties of spices such as tonic, carminative, stomachic, diuretic, and antispasm…

noun

A stomachic medicine or tonic.

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The use of the herb checks the head and eyes, like the leaves; hence the root should be accounted a…

adjective

On or relating to the underside of an animal or plant; abdominal.

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A ventral nerve cord

adjective

Of, on, or near the underside of an animal