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The dairy slows down gastric transit, causing digestion to grind along slower than it otherwise would and increasing body temperature as a result.—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 28 July 2025 The doctors inserted a chest tube to remove the fluid, which did not include gastric contents, suggesting the fluid build-up was from chest inflammation.—ArsTechnica, 27 June 2025 Dumping syndrome is typically triggered by bariatric, gastric, or esophageal surgery.—Janelle McSwiggin, Health, 14 June 2025 Its overexpression can be found in around a third of prostate, pancreatic, liver, gastric and breast cancers, and nearly two thirds of all ovarian cancers.—Bronwyn Thompson, New Atlas, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for gastric
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Etymology
Greek gastr-, gastēr, alteration of *grastēr, from gran to gnaw, eat
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