Definition of Gastric digestion

1. Noun. The process of breaking down proteins by the action of the gastric juice in the stomach.

Generic synonyms: Digestion

Medical Definition of Gastric digestion

1. That part of digestion, chiefly of the proteins, carried on in the stomach by the enzymes of the gastric juice. Synonym: peptic digestion. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gastric Digestion

gastric arteries
gastric artery
gastric atrophy
gastric balloon
gastric branches of anterior vagal trunk
gastric branches of posterior vagal trunk
gastric calculus
gastric canal
gastric cancer
gastric carcinoma
gastric cardia
gastric colic
gastric crisis
gastric diastole
gastric digestion (current term)
gastric emptying
gastric feeding
gastric filling defects
gastric fistula
gastric folds
gastric follicles
gastric freezing
gastric fundus
gastric glands
gastric haemorrhage
gastric hypersecretion
gastric impression
gastric indigestion
gastric inhibitory polypeptide

Literary usage of Gastric digestion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical physiological chemistry by Philip Bovier Hawk (1918)
"CHAPTER VII gastric digestion GASTRIC digestion takes place in the stomach ... The principal foods acted upon in gastric digestion are the proteins which ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Just as normal gastric digestion depends upon a normal condition of the mouth and normal salivary secretion, so normal intestinal digestion depends upon a ..."

3. An American Text-book of Physiology by William Henry Howell (1900)
"gastric digestion. After the food reaches the stomach it is exposed to the action of the secretion of the gastric mucous membrane, known usually as the ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1890)
"... such as iron wire or horsehair. He thinks the methods are wrong in principle, and also not without danger. gastric digestion IN HEART ..."

5. A Textbook of Physiology by Michael Foster (1889)
"Circumstances affecting gastric digestion. The solvent action of gastric juice on ... gastric digestion ..."

6. A Manual of clinical diagnosis by means of laboratory methods, for students by Charles Edmund Simon (1902)
"The Products of gastric digestion. Digestion of the Native Albumins.—The first step in the process of albuminous digestion in the stomach is one of swelling ..."

7. Practical dietetics: With Special Reference to Diet in Diseases by William Gilman Thompson (1905)
"DURATION OF gastric digestion OF DIFFERENT FOODS Bauer says : " By the digestibility of a food one can obviously understand nothing more or less than the ..."

8. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"The powerful ferments encountered in the intestines are usually able to compensate for the lack of gastric digestion, and as a rule no excessive loss of ..."

9. Practical physiological chemistry by Philip Bovier Hawk (1918)
"CHAPTER VII gastric digestion GASTRIC digestion takes place in the stomach ... The principal foods acted upon in gastric digestion are the proteins which ..."

10. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Just as normal gastric digestion depends upon a normal condition of the mouth and normal salivary secretion, so normal intestinal digestion depends upon a ..."

11. An American Text-book of Physiology by William Henry Howell (1900)
"gastric digestion. After the food reaches the stomach it is exposed to the action of the secretion of the gastric mucous membrane, known usually as the ..."

12. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1890)
"... such as iron wire or horsehair. He thinks the methods are wrong in principle, and also not without danger. gastric digestion IN HEART ..."

13. A Textbook of Physiology by Michael Foster (1889)
"Circumstances affecting gastric digestion. The solvent action of gastric juice on ... gastric digestion ..."

14. A Manual of clinical diagnosis by means of laboratory methods, for students by Charles Edmund Simon (1902)
"The Products of gastric digestion. Digestion of the Native Albumins.—The first step in the process of albuminous digestion in the stomach is one of swelling ..."

15. Practical dietetics: With Special Reference to Diet in Diseases by William Gilman Thompson (1905)
"DURATION OF gastric digestion OF DIFFERENT FOODS Bauer says : " By the digestibility of a food one can obviously understand nothing more or less than the ..."

16. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"The powerful ferments encountered in the intestines are usually able to compensate for the lack of gastric digestion, and as a rule no excessive loss of ..."

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