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Definition of Gastric juice

1. Noun. Digestive secretions of the stomach glands consisting chiefly of hydrochloric acid and mucin and the enzymes pepsin and rennin and lipase.

Definition of Gastric juice

1. Noun. (context: biology) A secretion of the gastric glands that includes hydrochloric acid, pepsinogen and mucus. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Gastric juice

1. The liquid secretion of the stomach mucosa consisting of hydrochloric acid (gastric acid), pepsinogen, intrinsic factor, gastrin, mucus, and the bicarbonate ion (bicarbonates). (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gastric Juice

Literary usage of Gastric juice

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"OH Ethyl-Butyrate Butyric acid-Ethyl-alcohol The Functions of the gastric juice — The Pawlow Experimental Stomach.—By means of a very ingenious surgical ..."

2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"Neutralisation of the juice wholly arrests digestion; fibrin may be submitted for an almost indefinite time to the action of neutralised gastric juice ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1845)
"Chemical Investigations into the Properties of the gastric juice.—MM. ... Moreover, gastric juice dissolves neutral phosphate of lime, whilst this salt is ..."

4. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1911)
"Artificial gastric juice.—In studying peptic digestion it is not necessary for all purposes to establish a gastric fistula. The active agents of the normal ..."

5. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"This latter, called pepsin, chymosin, or gas- te'rase, is the true digestive principle of the gastric juice. It may be precipitated by treating the juice ..."

6. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"The gastric juice.—When the food enters the stomach, it finds that gastric juice has already been secreted. This first secretion is psychical and depends ..."

7. The Control of Hunger in Health and Disease by Anton Julius Carlson (1916)
"The hunger gastric juice (continuous secretion) is distinctly higher than the ... The gastric juice or fluid in the empty stomach is distinctly more dilute ..."

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