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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;…

Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm.

Troubled with bad digestion. [R.] Carlyle.

Pertaining to the digastric muscle of the lower jaw; as, the digastric nerves.

to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids.

Pertaining to the epigastrium, or to the epigastric region.

See Gastrohepatic.

Of or pertaining to the hypogastrium or the hypogastric region. Hypogastric region. (a) The lower part of the abdomen. (b) An arbitrary division of the abdomen below the umbilical and between the two iliac regions.

Of or pertaining to the middle gastric lobe of the carapace of a crab.

Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.

Having but a single stomach.

Surrounding the stomach; -- applied to the body cavity of Bryozoa and various other Invertebrata.

The pneumogastric nerve. Pneumogastric nerve (Anat.), one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.

Pertaining to the Polygastrica. [Obs.]

The Infusoria. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca.

Having three bellies; -- said of a muscle. Dunglison.

Behind the stomach; -- said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.

organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.

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