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Definition of Peptic
1. Adjective. Relating to or promoting digestion. "Peptic juices"
Definition of Peptic
1. a. Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.
2. n. An agent that promotes digestion.
Definition of Peptic
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, capable of, or aiding digestion ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to pepsin ¹
3. Noun. An agent that promotes digestion. ¹
4. Noun. (context: in plural) The digestive organs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Peptic
1. a substance that promotes digestion [n -S]
Medical Definition of Peptic
1. Pertaining to pepsin or to digestion, related to the action of gastric juices. Origin: Gr. Peptikos This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peptic
Literary usage of Peptic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"STUDIES IN THE NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL INHIBITION OF peptic DIGESTION. ... A number
of methods have been suggested for estimating the peptic ..."
2. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"... formed by processes other than those of peptic and tryptic digestion have but
rarely been examined. Tryptic digestion rapidly converts ..."
3. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"peptic Ulcer peptic ulcers occur only in those portions of the ... In the stomach,
peptic ulcers most frequently involve the posterior wall, ..."
4. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"peptic Ulcer peptic ulcers occur only in those portions of the ... In the stomach,
peptic ulcers most frequently involve the posterior wall, ..."
5. A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body: Including an by Arthur Gamgee (1893)
"Hydriodic and hydrobromic acids hinder peptic digestion. ... Salicylic acid in
large doses interferes with peptic digestion, though according to Kuhne the ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"By MARCUS HARTOG, MA, D.Sc., FLS In 1896 I communicated to the Association a note
in which I referred incidentally to the discovery of a peptic zymase in ..."
7. Contributions to Medical and Biological Research by William Osler (1919)
"TUMOR FORMATION WITH peptic ULCER BY CHARLES G. STOCKTON, BUFFALO, NY CHRONIC
peptic ulcer, especially near the pylorus, whether occurring in stomach or ..."
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