(n.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.
(n.) The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.
(n.) Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.
(n.) Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.
(n.) Pride; haughtiness; arrogance.
(v. t.) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
(v. t.) To bear without repugnance; to brook.
(v. i.) To be angry.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the same time the duodenum can be isolated from the stomach and maintained under constant stimulus by a continual infusion at regulated pressure, volume and temperature into the distal cannula.
(2) This suggests that a physiological mechanism exists which can increase the barrier pressure to gastrooesophageal reflux during periods of active secretion of the stomach, as occurs in digestion.
(3) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(4) The following possible explanations were discussed: a) the tested psychotropic drugs block prostaglandin receptors in the stomach; b) the test substances react with prostaglandin in the nutritive solution; c) the substances stimulate metabolic processes in the stomach wall that break down prostaglandin.
(5) It was considered worthwhile to report this case due to the problems which arose concerning the choice of a thoracic rather than abdominal route owing to the impossibility of associating cardiomyotomy with anti-reflux plastica surgery because of the reduced dimensions of the stomach.
(6) Gastric reservoir reduction, wrapping the stomach with an inert fabric, is one such procedure.
(7) Sialosyl-Tn antigen expression also was observed in intestinal metaplasia of the stomach and in transitional mucosa adjacent to the colorectal carcinoma, which are considered to be cancer-related lesions.
(8) The carcinoma and lymphoma of the stomach were both small, and the depth of invasion was localized to the mucosa and submucosa, respectively.
(9) Mean run time and total ST time were faster with CE (by 1.4 and 1.2 min) although not significantly different (P less than 0.06 and P less than 0.10) from P. Subjects reported no significant difference in nausea, fullness, or stomach upset with CE compared to P. General physiological responses were similar for each drink during 2 h of multi-modal exercise in the heat; however, blood glucose, carbohydrate utilization, and exercise intensity at the end of a ST may be increased with CE fluid replacement.
(10) G-17-I infusion, the stomach was continuously infused with isotonic saline.
(11) The CL was also longer in the duodenum, whereas the CD was shortened, indicating a reduction of the wave movements from the stomach antrum to the duodenum in the ranitidine periods.
(12) A great deal of information about the spiral bacteria of the stomach has accumulated in the past 5 years.
(13) A case is presented with radiographically demonstrated angioedema in the stomach and small bowel accompanied by allergic rhinitis, which was apparently an allergic response to the barium sulfate suspension.
(14) Therefore, we tested the ability of ultrasound imaging to identify noninvasively the stomach contents of laboring and nonlaboring pregnant volunteers.
(15) Of the strains tested, only the germ-free ND 1 mouse appeared to be susceptible to infection, and this was confined to the stomach mucosa; lesions contained large numbers of hyphal and mycelial forms with blastospores.
(16) I am absolutely sick to the stomach that this iconic Australian news agency would attack the navy in the way that it has,” he said.
(17) Pathogenic Mycobacterium ulcerans were recovered from the stool of anole lizards up to 11 days after inoculation by stomach tube.
(18) In adenocarcinoma of the distal esophagus and stomach, EUS prediction of stages T1 to T3 correlated well with the actual rate of R0 resection.
(19) These results suggest that formaldehyde has tumor-promoting activity in carcinogenesis in the glandular stomach.
(20) One hundred and two rats were subjected to one of following three surgical procedures: Antiperistaltic duodenogastric reflux (ADGR) was made for duodenal juice to reflux through the pylorus into the stomach.
Stomachache
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Parent ratings indicated that only the side effects of decreased appetite, insomnia, stomachaches, and headaches increased significantly in frequency and severity during the two active medication doses as compared with the placebo condition.
(2) More patients, and in most cases nonpatients with IBS, reported poorer general health and headaches, stomachaches, and bowel complaints during childhood.
(3) Though in the meantime 12 years had passed she suffered occasionally from redness of the pharynx and stomachache after ingestion of tea prepared from yarrow and camomile.
(4) Constipation, stomachache, haemorrhoids and spasm of the anal sphincter were typical complaints.
(5) Data are presented on headaches and stomachaches in a sample of 189 3-year-old children obtained as part of community based study.
(6) When the children were 3 years old, interviews with their mothers indicated that 3% had recurrent headaches and 9% had recurrent stomachaches.
(7) Later, breathing through another stomachache, I scanned my notes, rereading scrawled concerns based on various conversations about the potential that everyone we met had some form of extreme PTSD, either from being sick, witnessing a nationwide health crisis, or – as had cropped up in one or two of the conversations – from being sexually assaulted.
(8) On June 12, 1987, the patient again returned to our hospital, complaining of a stomachache.
(9) The "physical" symptoms (stomachache, backache, nausea, fainting) were more often reported during menstruation, whereas the so-called "emotional" symptoms (lethargy, irritability, depression, tension, headache) had a greater prevalence premenstrually.
(10) Prospectively collected data demonstrate that children with recurrent stomachaches did not have bowel difficulties when they were infants.
(11) Children with recurrent headaches or stomachaches were more likely to have behavior problems, as measured by the Behavior Screening Questionnaire, than were children without these symptoms.
(12) Other psychosocial stresses and demographic factors were not associated with stomachaches.
(13) The epidemiology of recurrent stomachache and headache was studied in a community sample of 308 preschool children, most of whom were white.
(14) Other symptoms were abdominal bloating, vomiting urge, vomiting, nausea, stomachache, intestinal cramps, and diarrhea.
(15) Four of five individuals with stomachache had consumed a strongly hypertonic beverage.
(16) The results supported the previous findings of a link between family factors and recurrent stomachache, and a less strong association with headaches.
(17) Most frequently observed side effects in both groups were flushings, stomachache and diarrhea.
(18) A similar measurement model fits mother's and adolescent's tendency to seek medical care for the symptoms of a sore throat, stomachache, and vomiting.
(19) It differed from other gastrointestinal illnesses in that headaches were more likely and stomachaches were less likely to be reported.
(20) Stomachaches and headaches in a community sample of preschool children.