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postgastric

postgastric adjective: following gastric surgery.

Adjective

postgastric (not comparable)

  1. Following gastric surgery
    • Furthermore, these data support the current view that feedback from the stomach is unnecessary for the termination of drinking behavior and are consistent with a role of orosensory or postgastric feedback.2014 June 4, Anikó Marshall et al., “Roux-en-Y gastric bypass does not affect daily water intake or the drinking response to dipsogenic stimuli in rats”, in American Journal of Physiology -...

Origin of postgastric

From post- + gastric.

Questions about postgastric

What does postgastric mean?
Postgastric means following gastric surgery.
What part of speech is postgastric?
Postgastric is an adjective.

Words near postgastric in the dictionary

  1. postganglionary
  2. postganglionic
  3. postgasm
  4. postgasms
  5. postgastrectomy
  6. postgastric
  7. postgastrulation
  8. Postgate
  9. postgavage
  10. postgay
  11. postgelation

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