gastricity

English

Etymology

Formed as gastric +‎ -ity in parallel with the French gastricité (formed as gastrique +‎ -ité).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡæˈstɹɪsɪti/

Noun

gastricity (uncountable)

1. (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

state of gastric disturbance

References

• “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.)