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A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.

A species of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder.

A body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone.

A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

(Anat.) Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.

A soluble product (proteose) formed in the gastric and pancreatic digestion of casein and caseinogen.

The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.

he chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.

nsoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice. Meissner.

Epigastric.

ich exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.

Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders.

Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic, or lesser, omentum.

An albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin.

A product of the gastric and pancreatic digestion of albuminous matter.

o another organ on which it exerts a stimulating effect; thus, according to Starling, the gastric glands are stimulated by a hormone from the pyloric mucous membrane.

ion on either side of the abdomen beneath the cartilages of the false ribs, beside the epigastric, and above the lumbar, region.

passion. See Ileus. -- Iliac region, a region of the abdomen, on either side of the hypogastric regions, and below the lumbar regions.

A central cavity in the Ctenophora, into which the gastric sac leads.

gestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.