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Definition: Gastric |
GastricAdjective1. Relating to or involving the stomach; "gastric ulcer". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gastric" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
Etymology: Gastric \Gas"tric\, adjective. [from Greek expression stomach: compare to the French expression gastrique.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Having to do with the stomach. (references) |
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Synonyms: GastricSynonyms: stomachal (adj), stomachic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Adjective: eatable, edible, esculent, comestible, alimentary; cereal, cibarious; dietetic; culinary; nutritive, nutritious; gastric; succulent; potable, potulent; bibulous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Movie/TV Titles | What You Really Need to Know About... Ulcers: Gastric and Duodenal Peptic Ulcers (1995) | |
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 | Gastric endoscopy ... uses a flexible fibre-optic ... / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by J. Breitenbach.. |  | [Physiology: Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Health | Chronic infection also causes gastritis and gastric carcinoma. (references) | |
Nerve damage can cause the stomach to empty too slowly, a disorder called gastric stasis. (references) | ||
Further study of the relationship between H. pylori infection and gastric lymphomas is warranted. (references) | ||
Economic History | Norway | Best prospects for U.S. suppliers are still drugs associated with the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, gastric ulcers, asthma, allergy, depression, and pain relief. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments -- a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feeling -- tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut; the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram; the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility -- these things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing lucidity. (See, also, my monograph, The Essential Identity of the Spiritual Affections and Certain Intestinal Gases Freed in Digestion -- 4to, 687 pp.) In a scientific work entitled, I believe, Delectatio Demonorum (John Camden Hotton, London, 1873) this view of the sentiments receives a striking illustration; and for further light consult Professor Dam's famous treatise on Love as a Product of Alimentary Maceration. |
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| "Gastric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.47% of the time. "Gastric" is used about 2,077 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.47% | 2,066 | 4,201 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.53% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,077 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gastric": Esophageal and Gastric Varices ♦ Gastric Acid ♦ Gastric Acidity Determination ♦ gastric antacid ♦ Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia ♦ gastric artery ♦ gastric atrophy ♦ Gastric Balloon ♦ Gastric banding ♦ Gastric bubble/balloon ♦ Gastric bypass ♦ gastric catarrh ♦ gastric digestion ♦ Gastric Emptying ♦ Gastric exclusion ♦ Gastric fever ♦ Gastric Fistula ♦ gastric flu ♦ Gastric Fundus ♦ gastric haemorrhage ♦ Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide ♦ gastric intubation ♦ Gastric Juice ♦ Gastric Juices ♦ gastric lavage ♦ gastric mill ♦ Gastric Mucosa ♦ Gastric Outlet Obstruction ♦ Gastric remittent fever ♦ Gastric Resection ♦ gastric smear ♦ Gastric Stump ♦ gastric ulcer ♦ gastric vein ♦ left gastric artery ♦ left gastric vein ♦ right gastric artery ♦ right gastric vein ♦ short gastric artery. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "gastric": duodenal-gastric, nasal-gastric, naso-gastric, oesophago-gastric, oesphageal-gastric. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gastric bypass | 3,012 |
gastric bypass surgery | 1,890 |
gastric banding | 194 |
gastric ulcer | 165 |
gastric cancer | 134 |
gastric surgery | 98 |
gastric bypass diet | 95 |
gastric bypass surgeon | 79 |
gastric | 68 |
gastric by pass | 63 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gastric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i stomakut (stomachic). (various references) | |
Arabic | معدي (stomach-), خاص بالمعدة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стомашен (stomachal, stomachic), гастритен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 胃 (stomach). (various references) | |
Czech | gastrický, žaludeèní (stomachic). (various references) | |
Danish | gastrisk, mave-. (various references) | |
Dutch | gastricus, stomachaal. (various references) | |
Esperanto | stomaka suko (gastric juice). (various references) | |
Farsi | معدی , شکمی (Abdominal, Uterine, Ventral). (various references) | |
Finnish | mahaneste (gastric juice). (various references) | |
French | gastrique. (various references) | |
German | gastrisch, stomachal, magen-. (various references) | |
Greek | γαστρικόσ (abdominal). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קבתי, בט ו י. (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyomor (gizzard, insides, little mary, maw, stomach, stomachal, stomachic, tripes, tummy, ventricle, victualling-office). (various references) | |
Italian | gastrico (stomachic), stomacale. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 胃腺 (gastric gland), 胃酸過多症 (gastric hyperacidity), 胃炎 (gastric catarrh, gastritis), 胃ポリープ (gastric polyp), 胃液 (gastric juice), 胃液 (gastric juice), 胃拡張 (dilation of stomach, gastric dilation), 胃洗浄 (gastric irrigation, gastric lavage), 胃壁 (gastric wall, stomach lining), 胃アトニー (gastric atony), 胃カタル (gastric catarrh), 制酸薬 (gastric antacid). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せいさ"やく (gastric antacid), いポリープ (gastric polyp), いさ"かたしょう (gastric hyperacidity), いせ"じょう (gastric irrigation, gastric lavage), いせ" (gastric gland, parallel), いかくちょう (dilation of stomach, gastric dilation), いアトニー (gastric atony), いカタル (gastric catarrh), いへき (gastric wall, stomach lining), いえ" (beyond, further than, gastric catarrh, gastritis), いえき (gastric juice). (various references) | |
Korean | 위 (stomach, upper). (various references) | |
Manx | gastragh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | mage-. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | astricgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | verboso (circumlocutional, garter, glib, hotbed, long winded, prolix, verbose, wordy). (various references) | |
Romanian | gastric, stomacal (stomach, stomachal, stomachic). (various references) | |
Russian | желудочный (stomachic, stomach's). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gastričan, želudačni, želučani. (various references) | |
Spanish | gástrico. (various references) | |
Swedish | mag- (abdominal, peptic). (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับกระเพาะอาหาร. (various references) | |
Turkish | mideye ait, mide (belly, bread basket, craw, gizzard, inner man, stomach, tum, tummy). (various references) | |
Ukranian | шлунковий (stomachal, stomachic). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "gastric": digastric, epigastric, hypogastric, monogastric, nasogastric. (additional references) | |
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"Gastric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Astrac, asturci, bastric, fastrac, Fastrak, Gaiseric, Gastil, gastr, gastrc, gastri, gastrics, gastrid, Gautrait, Gaytrick, Gnashrak, gstric, maastrict, Mastrick, sastri. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gastric" (pronounced ga"strik) |
| 4 | -t r i k | anthropocentric, barometric, citric, concentric, dissymmetric, eccentric, econometric, egocentric, electric, ethnocentric, geocentric, geometric, geriatric, gravimetric, hydroelectric, metric, nitric, obstetric, optometric, parametric, pediatric, photoelectric, psychiatric, tantric, vitric. |
| 3 | -r i k | alphanumeric, atmospheric, Baldric, barbaric, boric, caloric, choric, cleric, Derrick, esoteric, euphoric, fabric, generic, hemispheric, historic, hyperbaric, hysteric, ionospheric, lyric, mercuric, mesenteric, meteoric, numeric, pinprick, prehistoric, pyrrhic, rubric, satiric, sophomoric, stearic, stratospheric, sulfuric, vampiric. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tragics. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cigars, crista, gratis, racist, tragic, triacs. | |
-2 letters: agist, airts, astir, carts, cigar, crags, gaits, girts, grist, grits, ragis, scart, scrag, sitar, staig, stair, stria, tarsi, tragi, triac, trigs. | |
-3 letters: acts, airs, airt, aits, arcs, arts, asci, cars, cart, cast, cats, cigs, cist, crag, cris, gait, gars, gast, gats, girt, gist, gits, grat, grit, ragi, rags, rats, rias, rigs, sari, sati, scag, scar, scat, stag, star, stir, tags, tars, tics, trig, tsar. | |
-4 letters: act, air, ais, ait, arc, ars, art, car, cat, cig, cis, gar, gas, gat, git, its, rag, ras, rat, ria, rig, sac, sag, sat, sic, sir, sit, sri, tag, tar, tas, tic, tis. | |
-5 letters: ag, ai, ar, as, at, is, it, si, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: agrestic, cigarets, ergastic, orgastic, scarting, tracings. | |
+2 letters: craggiest, digastric, orgiastic, recasting, starching, strategic, trackings. | |
+3 letters: astricting, carpetings, cartilages, cartridges, castigator, castrating, categories, categorise, centigrams, cigarettes, ciguateras, costarring, curtilages, epigastric, geriatrics, graticules, kingcrafts, magistracy, mistracing, organicist, pictograms, practising, pragmatics, precasting, restacking, scattering, scraggiest, scratching, transgenic, witchgrass. | |
+4 letters: abstracting, abstricting, ancestoring, astringency, caretakings, cartelising, cartoonings, castigators, categorised, categorises, categorizes, charmingest, contrasting, coruscating, cosignatory, desecrating, distracting, forecasting, gastronomic, gastrotrich, gracilities, hypogastric, jargonistic, latchstring, miscreating, monogastric, nasogastric, organicists, ostracising, ostracizing, overcasting, pictographs, rusticating, scatterings, scraggliest, searchlight, strategical, subtracting, switchgrass, transacting, transducing, transecting. | |
+5 letters: agricultures, archeologist, ascertaining, astrological, broadcasting, cardiologist, categorising, centimorgans, centralising, centrifugals, cologarithms, consecrating, constraining, corrugations, crystalizing, eviscerating, gastrocnemii, gastroscopic, gastrotrichs, generatrices, geostrategic, gesticulator, glycerinates, haircuttings, interchanges, interfacings, interspacing, kickstarting, latchstrings, magistracies, microgametes, nonstrategic, organicities, overcastings, plagiaristic, postorgasmic, postsurgical, pragmaticism, pragmaticist, pragmatistic, reescalating, roughcasting, scatteringly, scintigraphy, searchlights, sidetracking, stenographic, sugarcoating, tracklayings, transcending, transcribing, transfecting, witchgrasses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 73 74 72 69 63 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- ... - .-. .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a s t r i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0073 0074 0072 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41678586847569 |
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