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Gastric juice

noun

Digestive secretions of the stomach glands consisting chiefly of hydrochloric acid and mucin and the enzymes pepsin and rennin and lipase. Synonym: gastric acid.

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... through a divided oesophagus, nevertheless produces secretion of saliva; warm water injected into the bowels, and various other irritations of the lower intestines, have been found to excite secretion of the gastric juice, and so forth. The reality of the power being thus proved, its agency explains a great variety of apparently anomalous phenomena; of which I select the following from Dr. Brown-Sequard's ...

— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

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... have been taking refreshment more or less all the way from London. But he was one of the sort that can go steadily on, converting helpings into small boy, apparently without intermediate scientific events—gastric juice and blood-corpuscles, and so forth. He was able to converse affably the while, accepting suggestions as to method in the spirit in which they were given. In reporting his remarks the spelling cannot be too phonetical; if unintelligible at first, read them literally ...

— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

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... water, and no doubt countless numbers are taken into the digestive tract, and the principal reason why pathological conditions do not occur more frequently is on account of the germicidal qualities of the gastric juice. ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 • Various

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Words linked to "Gastric juice" : digestive juice, chymosin, digestive fluid, lipase, rennin, pepsin