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See Agast, v. t. [Obs.]

A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.

erived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.

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

A species of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder.

With a narrow mouth, as the shell of certain gastropods.

A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed.

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.

itation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium. Dunglison.

Applied to a gastrula when the blastorope does not entirely up.

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

ally accompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.

A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.

n angular projection on one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc. Auriculate leaf, one having small appended leaves or lobes on each side of its petiole or base.

g overcoats. Beaver rat (Zoöl.), an aquatic ratlike quadruped of Tasmania (Hydromys chrysogaster). -- Beaver skin, the furry skin of the beaver. -- Bank beaver. See under 1st Bank.

The fifteen-spined (Gasterosteus spinachia).

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

A marine gastropod of the genus Crepidula. The species are numerous. It is so named from its form and interior deck.

, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvæ of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and…