gastricity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Formed as gastric + -ity in parallel with the French gastricité (formed as gastrique + -ité).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gastricity (uncountable)
- (rare and probably obsolete) A state of gastric disturbance.
- 1796, Andrew Duncan, Annals of Medicine, volume I, page 69:
- But sometimes the author saw with astonishment the bark overcome the gastricity.
- 1885, The New Sydenham Society’s Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences:
Translations[edit]
state of gastric disturbance
References[edit]
- “Gastri·city” on page 71/2 of volume IV (F and G, ed. Henry Bradley, 1901), § 2 (G) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)