gastric

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Gastric balloons -- silicone balloons filled with air or saline and placed in the stomach -- can help people lose weight by making them feel too full to overeat.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

Gastric impactions are rare in donkeys, and the sanctuary only sees a couple of cases a year, he said.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2024

Gastric balloons are delivered into the stomach via the mouth in an outpatient procedure considered “minimally invasive.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 10, 2017

Put it this way: The Amazon algorithm recently recommended to me, based on my previous searches, a book-and-CD combination, ‘‘Hypnotic Gastric Band: The New Surgery-Free Weight-Loss System,’’ which offered a hypnotic equivalent to bariatric surgery.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2017

Chronic Gastric Catarrh may result from the acute or may arise independently.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various