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gastroretentive

gastroretentive adjective: facilitating retention in the gastrointestinal system for a long period of time.

Adjective

gastroretentive (not comparable)

  1. Facilitating retention in the gastrointestinal system for a long period of time.
    • A number of gastroretentive mechanisms have been evaluated, including mucoadhesion, floating dosage forms that use low-density matrices or gas generation, swelling matrices, and combinations thereof.2013, Integrated Pharmaceutics: Applied Preformulation, Product Design, and Regulatory Science

Origin of gastroretentive

From gastro- + retentive.

Questions about gastroretentive

What does gastroretentive mean?
Gastroretentive means facilitating retention in the gastrointestinal system for a long period of time.
What part of speech is gastroretentive?
Gastroretentive is an adjective.

Words near gastroretentive in the dictionary

  1. gastroraphy
  2. gastrorectal
  3. gastrorenal
  4. gastroresistant
  5. gastroretention
  6. gastroretentive
  7. gastrorrhagia
  8. gastrorrhaphies
  9. gastrorrhaphy
  10. gastrorrhea
  11. gastrorrhoea

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