Word Meanings - GASTRALGIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders.

Related words: (words related to GASTRALGIA)

• STOMACHAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric. 2. Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.
• STOMACH
  1. To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. Shak. The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront. L'Estrange. The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it. Milton. 2. To bear
• STOMACHY
  Obstinate; sullen; haughty. A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety. R. L. Stevenson.
• STOMACHER
  1. One who stomachs.
• STOMACHFUL
  Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse. -- Stom"ach*ful*ly, adv. -- Stom"ach*ful*ness, n.
• STOMACHING
  Resentment.
• STOMACHOUS
  Stout; sullen; obstinate. With stern looks and stomachous disdain. Spenser.
• STOMACHIC
  A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.
• GASTRIC
  Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery. Gastric digestion , the conversion of the albuminous portion of food in the stomach into soluble and diffusible products by the solvent action of gastric juice. -- Gastric
• EPIGASTRIUM
  The upper part of the abdomen.
• STOMACHIC; STOMACHICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels. 2. Strengthening to the stomach; exciting the action of the stomach; stomachal; cordial.
• STOMACHLESS
  1. Being without a stomach. 2. Having no appetite. Bp. Hall.
• HIGH-STOMACHED
  Having a lofty spirit; haughty. Shak.
• MESOGASTRIC
  Of or pertaining to the middle gastric lobe of the carapace of a crab. (more info) Of or pertaining to the middle region of the abdomen, or of the stomach. Of or pertaining to the mesogaster.
• METAGASTRIC
  Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.
• HEPATOGASTRIC
  See GASTROHEPATIC
• STOMATOGASTRIC
  Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca.
• UROGASTRIC
  Behind the stomach; -- said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.
• PERIGASTRIC
  Surrounding the stomach; -- applied to the body cavity of Bryozoa and various other Invertebrata.
• POLYGASTRICA
  The Infusoria.
• HYPOGASTRIC
  Of or pertaining to the hypogastrium or the hypogastric region. Hypogastric region. The lower part of the abdomen. An arbitrary division of the abdomen below the umbilical and between the two iliac regions.
• MONOGASTRIC
  Having but a single stomach.
• POLYGASTRIC
  Having several bellies; -- applied to muscles which are made up of several bellies separated by short tendons.
• DIGASTRIC
  Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw. Pertaining to the digastric muscle of the lower jaw; as, the digastric nerves.
• ENTOGASTRIC
  Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids.