Gastric Juice

(gastrik.) (From Gr. gaster, the stomach.] (Physiol.) A thin, pellucid liquor, separated by the capillary exhaling arteries of the stomach. It is the pp. agent indigestion,for it acts with a chemical energy in di olving food, which is not only merely reduced by it to very minute parts,but its taste and smell are quite changed, and it acquires new and different properties. See DIGESTION. [s. 397]