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 juice, the digestive fluid produced in the stomach, contains hydrochloric acid, HCl.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

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

From Seattle Times • Aug. 10, 2017

Gastric Antipathies.—To the great majority of mankind the idea of eating horseflesh is repulsive.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)