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exogastric

exogastric adjective: outside of the stomach.

Adjective

exogastric (not comparable)

  1. Outside of the stomach.
    • Preoperatively and intraoperatively it is difficult to distinguish benign and malignant lesions; all may demonstrate a mixture of intramural, endogastric and exogastric appearances.2007, Alan H. Freeman, Radiology of the Stomach and Duodenum, page 139
  2. Of the shell of a mollusc, curving forwards towards the head.
    • Vexing are two exogastric genera of the Simard limestone.1957, Rousseau Hayner Flower, Curt Teichert, The cephalopod order Discosorida, page 41
    • I interpret Mellopegma as exogastric and separate it from Peel's (1991) class Helcionelloida because of its extremely narrow aperture with uniformly ventrally curved lateral margins.1998, Norman Dennis Newell, Bivalves: An Eon of Evolution

Origin of exogastric

From exo- + gastric.

Words formed from exogastric

Questions about exogastric

What does exogastric mean?
Exogastric means outside of the stomach.
What part of speech is exogastric?
Exogastric is an adjective.

Words near exogastric in the dictionary

  1. exogamous
  2. exogamously
  3. exogamy
  4. exogangue
  5. exogangues
  6. exogastric
  7. exogastrically
  8. exogastrulate
  9. exogastrulated
  10. exogastrulates
  11. exogastrulating

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