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Gastritis   Listen
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Gastritis  n.  (Med.) Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.






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"Gastritis" Quotes from Famous Books



... inflammation of the stomach. An erysipelatous inflammation of the stomach is mentioned by Dr. Cullen from his own observations; which is distinguished from the inflammatory gastritis by less pain, and fever, and by an erysipelatous redness about the fauces. Does this disease ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... than a week from the beginning the symptoms indicated a most obstinate chronic gastritis. There was a perpetual sense of corrosion at the pit of the stomach very like that which characterizes the fatal operation of arsenic. There was less action of the liver than usually indicates a salvable case, and no irritation of the lowest intestines. Pari passu with the gastritic suffering, ...
— The Opium Habit • Horace B. Day

... general infective diseases produced by bacilli, local affections also occur, which indicate the presence of these organisms at the point where disease begins. As an example of these processes, which probably occur in various organs, I would mention gastritis bacillaris, of which I shall show you preparations. In this, we can trace the entrance of the bacilli into the peptic glands, as well as their further distribution in the walls of the stomach, and ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 303 - October 22, 1881 • Various



Words linked to "Gastritis" :   inflammation, rubor



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