GASTRIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gastric mean? 

• GASTRIC (adjective)
  The adjective GASTRIC has 1 sense:

1. relating to or involving the stomach

  Familiarity information: GASTRIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GASTRIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or involving the stomach

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

gastric; stomachal; stomachic

Context example:

gastric ulcer

Pertainym:

stomach (an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion)

 Context examples 

This leads to an inhibition of gastric secretions and gastrointestinal motility.

(Methscopolamine Bromide, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in the regulation of gene expression and plays an oncogenic role in hepatocellular and gastric carcinomas as well as plasma cell myelomas.

(MIR25 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in the regulation of gene expression and plays a role in the development of hepatocellular, gastric and breast carcinomas.

(MIR27A Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

AbGn-7 antigen is expressed on a variety of tumor cell types, including human colorectal, pancreatic and gastric tumor cells.

(Monoclonal Antibody AbGn-7, NCI Thesaurus)

A malignant neoplasm that has spread to the stomach from another organ or system, or from another primary gastric tumor.

(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Stomach, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include metastatic melanoma and metastatic breast and gastric carcinomas.

(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Extrahepatic Bile Ducts, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients are at high risk of developing female and male breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and other cancers including prostatic cancer, pancreatic cancer, gastric cancer, and melanoma.

(BRCA2 Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Chromosomal deletions within the 17q12 region can lead to out of frame fusions of this gene and the ERBB2 gene and may be associated with gastric cancer.

(CDK12 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic finding indicating the presence of cells that resemble gastric foveolar epithelial cells.

(Cellular Changes Resembling Foveolar Epithelium Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called gastric mucosal hypertrophy and giant hypertrophic gastritis.

(Ménétrier disease, NCI Dictionary)