Definition of Gastric antacid

1. Noun. An agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Gastric Antacid

gastralgia
gastralgias
gastrea
gastrea theory
gastreas
gastrectasia
gastrectasias
gastrectasis
gastrectomies
gastrectomy
gastric
gastric acid
gastric acidity determination
gastric algid malaria
gastric analysis
gastric antacid (current term)
gastric area
gastric arteries
gastric artery
gastric atrophy
gastric balloon
gastric branches of anterior vagal trunk
gastric branches of posterior vagal trunk
gastric calculus
gastric canal
gastric cancer
gastric carcinoma
gastric cardia
gastric colic

Literary usage of Gastric antacid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diagnostic Therapeutics: A Guide for Practitioners in Diagnosis by Aid of by Albert Abrams (1910)
"The use of a gastric antacid is often more efficient in diagnosis than the method of determining the acidity by analysis of the stomach contents, ..."

2. The Principles of treatment and their applications in practical medicine by John Mitchell Bruce, Edward Quin Thornton (1900)
"An emetic and gastric antacid (p. 453): A draught of tepid water, repeated until vomiting occurs, assisted if necessary by irritation of the fauces. ..."

3. Text-book of Therapeutics and Materia Medica by Robert Thaxter Edes (1887)
"... consist of the heavy magnesia in suspension in water, or dissolved by carbonic acid in excess. DOSE.—As a gastric antacid, ten grains, ..."

4. Useful Cathartics: A Series of Articles on the Use and Abuse of Cathartics by Bernard Fantus (1920)
"Magnesium oxid is likewise rather feeble in cathartic action, and is more useful as a gastric antacid than as a laxative, especially in view of the reputed ..."

5. Diagnostic Therapeutics: A Guide for Practitioners in Diagnosis by Aid of by Albert Abrams (1910)
"The use of a gastric antacid is often more efficient in diagnosis than the method of determining the acidity by analysis of the stomach contents, ..."

6. The Principles of treatment and their applications in practical medicine by John Mitchell Bruce, Edward Quin Thornton (1900)
"An emetic and gastric antacid (p. 453): A draught of tepid water, repeated until vomiting occurs, assisted if necessary by irritation of the fauces. ..."

7. Text-book of Therapeutics and Materia Medica by Robert Thaxter Edes (1887)
"... consist of the heavy magnesia in suspension in water, or dissolved by carbonic acid in excess. DOSE.—As a gastric antacid, ten grains, ..."

8. Useful Cathartics: A Series of Articles on the Use and Abuse of Cathartics by Bernard Fantus (1920)
"Magnesium oxid is likewise rather feeble in cathartic action, and is more useful as a gastric antacid than as a laxative, especially in view of the reputed ..."

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