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See Ghastful, Ghastly.

So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.

See Ghastness. [Obs.]

A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris basin.

irst stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the Gastræa theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula.

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

Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery. Gastric digestion (Physiol.), the conversion of the albuminous portion of food in the stomach into soluble and diffusible products by the solvent action of gastric juice. -- Gastric fever (Med.), a fever attended with prominent gastric symptoms;…

One who appears to speak from his stomach; a ventriloquist.

Ventriloquous. [R.]

A voice or utterance which appears to proceed from the stomach; ventriloquy.

Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.

A combining form from the Gr. gastrocolic, gastrocele, gastrotomy.

The muscle which makes the greater part of the calf of the leg.

Pertaining to both the stomach and the colon; as, the gastrocolic, or great, omentum.

That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst.

Pertaining to the stomach and duodenum; as, the gastroduodenal artery.

Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice.

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 Cæsarean operation, and less dangerous.

Gastrointestinal.

Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines.