NOUN
- digestive secretions of the stomach glands consisting chiefly of hydrochloric acid and mucin and the enzymes pepsin and rennin and lipase
How To Use gastric acid In A Sentence
- Gastric acid is the primary barrier against orally ingested enteric pathogens, and a major regulator of small bowel flora.
- The betaine in this compound does not alter gastric acidity, but simply ‘delivers’ the hydrochloric acid.
- Five patients had additional selective gastric vagotomy because of excessive gastric acid or a history of duodenal ulcer.
- The lower esophagus and duodenal bulb are common sites of gastric metaplasias occurring as a protective response to the injurious action of gastric acid.
- In this latter group, eradication of the infection has been reported to increase gastric acid secretion toward normal.
- Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), such as Prevacid and Prilosec, which suppress gastric acid production, are routinely prescribed to combat the potential GI side effects of heart disease treatment.
- A formerly widely used diagnostic test of a patient's susceptibility to develop peptic ulcer was to administer histamine, which is a powerful stimulant of gastric acid secretion. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988 - Presentation Speech
- Early studies by Cooke showed that ethanol in concentrations of 1% to 20% did not stimulate gastric acid secretion.
- To compare the effect of different substances on gastric acid secretion proper control solutions comparable with the test solution should be used.
- The problems with this concept include the role of food enzymes in digestion, their survival through gastric acidity and the notion of a body pool of enzymes.
