Gastricism

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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 […]"

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"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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