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gastroprotective

gastroprotective adjective: protective against gastropathy.

Adjective

gastroprotective (comparative more gastroprotective, superlative most gastroprotective)

  1. protective against gastropathy
    • Piptadeniastrum africanum stem bark extracts thus have gastroprotective and ulcer healing effects, which could result from their activities by stimulating important cellular mechanisms such as migration and proliferation of epithelial cells that may have a cytoprotective effect by stimulating the...2015 July 8, Gilbert Ateufack et al., “Gastroprotective and ulcer healing effects of piptadeniastrum Africanum on experimentally induced gastric ulcers in rats”, in BMC Complementary and Alternative...

Forms of gastroprotective

comparativemore gastroprotective
superlativemost gastroprotective

Origin of gastroprotective

From gastro- + protective.

Questions about gastroprotective

What does gastroprotective mean?
Gastroprotective means protective against gastropathy.
What part of speech is gastroprotective?
Gastroprotective is an adjective.

Words near gastroprotective in the dictionary

  1. gastroporn
  2. gastroprokinetic
  3. gastroprotectant
  4. gastroprotectants
  5. gastroprotection
  6. gastroprotective
  7. gastroprotectiveness
  8. gastropterid
  9. gastropterids
  10. gastroptoses
  11. gastroptosis

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