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- English Word Gastight Definition So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.
- English Word Gastly Definition See Ghastful, Ghastly.
- English Word Gastness Definition See Ghastness.
- English Word Gastornis Definition A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris basin.
- English Word Gastraea Definition A primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to the hypothesis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the Gastraea theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula.
- English Word Gastralgia Definition Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders.
- English Word Gastric Definition Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery.
- English Word Gastriloquist Definition One who appears to speak from his stomach; a ventriloquist.
- English Word Gastriloquous Definition Ventriloquous.
- English Word Gastriloquy Definition A voice or utterance which appears to proceed from the stomach; ventriloquy.
- English Word Gastritis Definition Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.
- English Word Gastro- Definition A combining form from the Gr. /, /, the stomach, or belly; as in gastrocolic, gastrocele, gastrotomy.
- English Word Gastrocnemius Definition The muscle which makes the greater part of the calf of the leg.
- English Word Gastrocolic Definition Pertaining to both the stomach and the colon; as, the gastrocolic, or great, omentum.
- English Word Gastrodisc Definition That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst.
- English Word Gastroduodenal Definition Pertaining to the stomach and duodenum; as, the gastroduodenal artery.
- English Word Gastroduodenitis Definition Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice.
- English Word Gastroelytrotomy Definition The operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, through the abdomen (without opening the peritoneum), for the purpose of removing a fetus. It is a substitute for the Caesarean operation, and less dangerous.
- English Word Gastroenteric Definition Gastrointestinal.
- English Word Gastroenteritis Definition Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines.