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Definition of Gastric antacid
1. Noun. An agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach).
Specialized synonyms: Cimetidine, Tagamet, Ranitidine, Zantac, Alka-seltzer, Brioschi, Bromo-seltzer, Maalox, Mylanta, Omeprazole, Prilosec, Pepto-bismal, Rolaids, Tums
Generic synonyms: Agent
Derivative terms: Alkalize, Antacid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gastric Antacid
Literary usage of Gastric antacid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diagnostic Therapeutics: A Guide for Practitioners in Diagnosis by Aid of by Albert Abrams (1910)
"The use of a gastric antacid is often more efficient in diagnosis than the method
of determining the acidity by analysis of the stomach contents, ..."
2. The Principles of treatment and their applications in practical medicine by John Mitchell Bruce, Edward Quin Thornton (1900)
"An emetic and gastric antacid (p. 453): A draught of tepid water, repeated until
vomiting occurs, assisted if necessary by irritation of the fauces. ..."
3. Text-book of Therapeutics and Materia Medica by Robert Thaxter Edes (1887)
"... consist of the heavy magnesia in suspension in water, or dissolved by carbonic
acid in excess. DOSE.—As a gastric antacid, ten grains, ..."
4. Useful Cathartics: A Series of Articles on the Use and Abuse of Cathartics by Bernard Fantus (1920)
"Magnesium oxid is likewise rather feeble in cathartic action, and is more useful
as a gastric antacid than as a laxative, especially in view of the reputed ..."
5. Diagnostic Therapeutics: A Guide for Practitioners in Diagnosis by Aid of by Albert Abrams (1910)
"The use of a gastric antacid is often more efficient in diagnosis than the method
of determining the acidity by analysis of the stomach contents, ..."
6. The Principles of treatment and their applications in practical medicine by John Mitchell Bruce, Edward Quin Thornton (1900)
"An emetic and gastric antacid (p. 453): A draught of tepid water, repeated until
vomiting occurs, assisted if necessary by irritation of the fauces. ..."
7. Text-book of Therapeutics and Materia Medica by Robert Thaxter Edes (1887)
"... consist of the heavy magnesia in suspension in water, or dissolved by carbonic
acid in excess. DOSE.—As a gastric antacid, ten grains, ..."
8. Useful Cathartics: A Series of Articles on the Use and Abuse of Cathartics by Bernard Fantus (1920)
"Magnesium oxid is likewise rather feeble in cathartic action, and is more useful
as a gastric antacid than as a laxative, especially in view of the reputed ..."
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