gastric
pronunciation
How to pronounce gastric in British English:
UK [ˈgæstrɪk]
How to pronounce gastric in American English:
US [ˈɡæstrɪk]
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- Adjective:
- relating to or involving the stomach
Word Origin
- gastric
- gastric: [17] Grek gastér meant ‘stomach’ (it was related to Greek gráō ‘gnaw, eat’ and Sanskrit gras- ‘devour’). It was used as the basis of the modern Latin adjective gastricus ‘of the stomach’, which English acquired via French gastrique. Derivatives include gastronomy ‘culinary connoisseurship’ [19], originally a French coinage, and gastropod ‘mollusc’ [19], literally ‘stomach-foot’ (from the ventral disc used by molluscs as a ‘foot’).
- gastric (adj.)
- 1650s, from Modern Latin gastricus, from Greek gaster (genitive gastros) "stomach, paunch, belly," often figurative of gluttony or greed, also "womb, uterus; sausage," by dissimilation from *graster, literally "eater, devourer," from gran "to gnaw, eat," from PIE root *gras- "to devour" (cognates: Greek grastis "green fodder," Latin gramen "fodder, grass," Old English cærse "cress").
Example
- 1. Gastric surgery is a drastic intervention - and a controversial one .
- 2. The most common is laparoscopic gastric bypass , which decreases the size of the patient 's stomach and also the body 's ability to fully absorb food and thereby calories .
- 3. But if you think gastric bypass surgery might be right for you , talk with your doctor .
- 4. At age 26 , he suffered a gastric hemorrhage and he was hospitalized for two months .
- 5. Her weight ballooned , and in 2003 she underwent gastric bypass surgery and lost more than 200 pounds .