Gastric

gas'trik, a. (Anat.) Pert, to the stomach. [Gr. gaster, Skr. jathara, the belly.] — Gastric fever. {Pathol.) Bilious, enteric, or typhoid fever; acute inflammatory dyspepsia. — Gastritis, n. {Med.) Inflammation of the stomach.— Gas'teropod, (Zo'61.) A molluscous animal (as the snuii_), having a muscular ventral disk, which serves in place of feet. [Gr. pons, podos, a foot.] — Gastril'oquy, -o-kwl, n. A voice or utterance which appears to proceed from— the stomach; ventriloquy. [L. loqui, to speak.] Gastril'oquist, -kwist, n. A ventriloquist.— GastroKogy, -o-jl, n. A treatise on the stomach. [Gr. logos, discourse.] — Gastron'omy, -ml, n. Art or science of good eating; epicurism. [Gr. nomos, law, usage.] — Gastron'enier, n. One fond of good living; an epicure; glutton.— Gastronem'ic, -ical, a. Pert, to, etc. — Gastros'copy, -ko-pT. n. (Med.) Examination of the abdomen, to detect disease; abdominoscopy. [Gr. skopein, to examine.] — Gas'tro-col'ic, a. {Med.) Pert, to both stomach and colon. [Gr. kolikos, pert. to the colon.] — G.-elytrotomy, -el't-trofo-ml, n. (Surg.) The operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, to remove a fetus, —a substitute for the Cesarean operation. [Gr. elutron. a sheath, and tome, a cutting. — G.-enter'ic, a. (Med.) Pert, to the stomach and intestines. [Gr. enteron, intestine.] — G.-enter i'tis, n. (Pathol.) Inflammation of the lining membrane of etc — G.-hepat'ic, a. (Med.) Pert, to both stomach and liver. [Gr. hepar, liver.] — G.-hys'terot'omy, -his'ter-ofo-mT, a. (Surg.) The Cesarean operation. [Gr. hustera, womb.]