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paragastric

paragastric adjective: lying alongside the gastric cavity.

Adjective

paragastric (not comparable)

  1. Lying alongside the gastric cavity.
  2. Relating to the paragaster (the cavity of the sac of a sponge)

Origin of paragastric

From para- + gastric.

Questions about paragastric

What does paragastric mean?
Paragastric means lying alongside the gastric cavity.
What part of speech is paragastric?
Paragastric is an adjective.

Words near paragastric in the dictionary

  1. paraganglionic
  2. Paragas
  3. Paragases
  4. paragaster
  5. paragasters
  6. paragastric
  7. paragastrioceratid
  8. paragastrioceratids
  9. parage
  10. parageneses
  11. paragenesis

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