nonerosive

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ erosive

Adjective[edit]

nonerosive (not comparable)

  1. Not erosive.
    • 1901 June 8, The Engineering Record[1], volume 43, number 23, page 540:
      The blue clay while under water is "soft and very easily eroded," according to a report by Lieutenant Rees, and "nonerosive, very difficult of removal by any process" according to the contractor.
    • 2014, Richard W. Nelson, Small Animal Internal Medicine[2], page 1117:
      Immune-mediated polyarthritis is classified as either erosive or nonerosive on the basis of the presence or absence of radiographically evident joint destruction.
    • 2015 October 28, “Associations of Circulating Gut Hormone and Adipocytokine Levels with the Spectrum of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease”, in PLOS ONE[3], →DOI:
      Shindo et al. studied 151 patients with functional dyspepsia or nonerosive reflux disease and found that acylated ghrelin levels were significantly lower in NERD patients and that 33% of NERD patients exhibited delayed gastric emptying.