How to Use gastric in a Sentence

gastric

adjective
Definition of gastricnext
  • The cause was gastric cancer, said his wife, Dorothy Pohlman.
    — Washington Post, 17 June 2018
  • Stuyvesant alum Cathy Choy died this year of gastric cancer.
    — Adriana Diaz, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2019
  • More than half of the procedures done that year were gastric sleeve surgery, which removes about 80% of the stomach.
    — Maia Pandey, NBC News, 14 July 2023
  • These problems were so common that the Mayo Clinic was built on gastric surgery.
    — Pamela Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2010
  • Jazz: Rodney Hood was pulled out of the starting lineup at the last second due to gastric distress.
    — USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Not all foods are made the same, therefore not all gastric emptying is made equal either.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Wet cat food should not be left out past three hours at the risk of causing intestinal and gastric distress to indoor cats.
    — Dallas News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • At some point, the chafing and gastric distress of wearing these restrictive garments all sort of came to a head.
    — Amy McCarthy, Marie Claire, 12 Aug. 2015
  • Berberine slows the gastric emptying process down, though Ozempic also does this, and on a much greater scale.
    — Ned Doyle, Robb Report, 19 July 2023
  • These special stones, called gastroliths, become lodged in a section of the digestive tracts called the gastric mill.
    — Erin Fennessy, Popular Science, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Seeing, smelling, or even just thinking about food gets your gastric juices flowing.
    — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2020
  • Misoprostol, on the other hand, started out as a drug to treat gastric ulcers.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The determined mom had a gastric balloon and gastric bypass and lost more than half her body weight over 12 months, but was left with rolls of skin that hung to her knees.
    — Fox News, 10 July 2018
  • Bd drove to extinction many species of frogs in the Americas and the northern gastric brooding frog of Australia.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 19 July 2017
  • Dupree — that’s how most everyone referred to him — died Nov. 28 at age 64 of metastatic gastric cancer.
    — Dallas News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Lloyd Webber dedicated the final show to his son, Nicholas, who died last month of gastric cancer.
    — Alex Chun, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Both were developed to treat gastric issues but have the effect of boosting milk supply.
    — E.j. Dickson, Vox, 20 Dec. 2018
  • During the pre-runway D&M time, Kita reveals that she’s struggled with her weight all her life and got gastric sleeve surgery, but still feels self-conscious.
    — Shaad D'souza, Vulture, 1 May 2021
  • His wife, Candace Itow, who confirmed the death, said he was hospitalized on Aug. 17 with a gastric ailment.
    — Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2020
  • His daughter Carmen Blanco Valer said the cause of his death, in a hospital, was a gastric obstruction.
    — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The cause was gastric cancer, said her husband, Akshar Patel.
    — Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
  • But diagnosing gastric diseases may require patients to endure a tube stuck through the nose, down the throat and into the stomach.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Diarrhea and nausea: At first science didn't think gastric issues that often come with the flu applied to Covid-19.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 July 2020
  • Gastrin also prompts the release of the chemical histamine, which then binds to H2 receptors and causes the release of gastric acid to help break down that food.
    — Tara C. Smith, SELF, 1 Apr. 2020
  • This can cause acid reflux, meaning that gastric acid can enter your esophagus and lead to heartburn.
    — Tara C. Smith, SELF, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Late last month, Webber's eldest son, Nicholas, died at 43 after a battle with gastric cancer.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Twinges in the belly might be catastrophised as pending gastric disaster.
    — Eleanor Morgan, refinery29.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Yet in the United States, gastric cancer accounts for only about 1.5% of all new cancers diagnosed per year.
    — Angela Yang, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • June Leaf, whose idiosyncratic oeuvre was shaped by a desire to find new ways of seeing the world, died of gastric cancer on July 1 at her Manhattan home.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 3 July 2024
  • In one study with healthy volunteers, a combination of ginger and artichoke extract facilitated gastric emptying, the movement of food from the stomach to the intestines.
    — Johna Burdeos, Health, 2 July 2024

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