About The Word Peptic
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Peptic
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What's The Definition Of Peptic?
[adj] relating to or promoting digestion; "peptic juices"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Peptic: Related Terms | Find terms related to Peptic: See Also | Peptic In Webster's Dictionary \Pep"tic\, a. [L. pepticus, Gr. ?. See {Pepsin}.]
1. Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as,
peptic sauces.
2. Able to digest. [R.]
Tolerably nutritive for a mind as yet so peptic.
--Carlyle.
3. (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to pepsin; resembling pepsin
in its power of digesting or dissolving albuminous matter;
containing or yielding pepsin, or a body of like
properties; as, the peptic glands.
\Pep"tic\, n. 1. An agent that promotes digestion. 2. pl. The digestive organs. Is there some magic in the place, Or do my peptics differ? --Tennyson. |
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