NOUN
- digestive secretions of the stomach glands consisting chiefly of hydrochloric acid and mucin and the enzymes pepsin and rennin and lipase
How To Use gastric juice In A Sentence
- Peptic ulcers are produced by the self-destruction of the gut wall by pepsin and hydrochloric acid in gastric juice.
- Greatly to their surprise he raised himself, looked at his watch, and remarked that, as it was now half an hour since luncheon, the gastric juices had had sufficient time to secrete; he was trying a system, he explained, which involved short spells of exercise interspaced by longer intervals of rest. The Voyage Out
- Previous work has shown that these polymerised forms are unstable in acid conditions (such as gastric juice) and that only monomeric, dimeric and trimeric forms are passed to the intestine for absorption.
- Aggressive factors include gastric juice and bile salts which can reflux back into the stomach.
- That it influences the stomach reflexly by promoting the flow of gastric juice. The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition
- Here and there are seen other special cells called parietal cells, P, which are supposed to produce the acid of the gastric juice. A Practical Physiology
- When food is introduced into the stomach, the peristaltic contractions of that organ roll it about, and mingle it with the gastric juice, which disintegrates the connective tissue, and converts the albuminous portions into the substance called chyme, which is about the consistency of pea-soup, and which is readily absorbed through the animal membranes into the blood of the delicate and numerous vessels of the stomach, whence it is conveyed to the portal vein and to the liver. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
- It is concluded that successful eradication of H pylori improves secretion of vitamin C into gastric juice.
- Is it _pepsin_, the active principle of the gastric juice, which converts proteids into peptone, that is wanting, or is there a deficiency of _pancreatin_? The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
- The significance of platelet activating factor in the gastric juice of healthy humans is still difficult to analyse.
