Gastricism
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any gastric disorder, such as dyspepsia or indigestion. dated, uncountable
"Hence it happens, that, unreflecting physicians are often ignorant of the true efficient cause of this disease, for, among the non-natural causes and gastricism they find the usual cause of its being […]"
Example
More examples"Hence it happens, that, unreflecting physicians are often ignorant of the true efficient cause of this disease, for, among the non-natural causes and gastricism they find the usual cause of its being […]"
Etymology
From gastric + -ism.
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