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    The stomach is a muscular, hollow organ in the upper gastrointestinal tract of humans and many other animals, including several invertebrates. The stomach...
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    Stomach cancer, also known as gastric cancer, is a cancer that develops from the lining of the stomach. Most cases of stomach cancers are gastric carcinomas...
    79 KB (8,142 words) - 17:15, 6 May 2024
  • one's stomach in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Butterflies in the stomach is the physical sensation in humans of a "fluttery" feeling in the stomach, caused...
    1 KB (194 words) - 02:35, 2 February 2024
  • Hyperchlorhydria, sometimes called chlorhydria, sour stomach or acid stomach, refers to the state in the stomach where gastric acid levels are higher than the...
    2 KB (170 words) - 15:13, 14 August 2023
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    Stomach diseases include gastritis, gastroparesis, Crohn's disease and various cancers. The stomach is an important organ in the body. It plays a vital...
    8 KB (951 words) - 03:45, 16 May 2024
  • the inner lining of the stomach, the first part of the small intestine, or sometimes the lower esophagus. An ulcer in the stomach is called a gastric ulcer...
    54 KB (5,859 words) - 06:17, 28 May 2024
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    A stomach rumble, also known as a bowel sound, peristaltic sound, abdominal sound, bubble gut or borborygmus (pronounced /ˌbɔːrbəˈrɪɡməs/; plural borborygmi)...
    9 KB (858 words) - 08:16, 16 May 2024
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    Gastritis is the inflammation of the lining of the stomach. It may occur as a short episode or may be of a long duration. There may be no symptoms but...
    32 KB (2,741 words) - 15:17, 28 May 2024
  • Gastric lavage (redirect from Stomach pump)
    lavage, also commonly called stomach pumping or gastric irrigation, is the process of cleaning out the contents of the stomach using a tube. Since its first...
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    Abdominal pain (redirect from Stomach ache)
    Abdominal pain, also known as a stomach ache, is a symptom associated with both non-serious and serious medical issues. Since the abdomen contains most...
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  • "As the Stomach Turns" is a series of comedy sketches parodying the soap opera As the World Turns (or its title, at any rate) featured on The Carol Burnett...
    13 KB (1,218 words) - 17:40, 14 April 2024
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    as fast-acting suicide devices. Cyanide reacts at a higher level with high stomach acidity. On 26 January 1904, company promoter and swindler Whitaker Wright...
    62 KB (5,702 words) - 07:38, 28 May 2024
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    damage caused to the stomach lining can bring about the change to atrophic gastritis, and the development of ulcers both within the stomach itself or in the...
    147 KB (16,464 words) - 18:03, 17 May 2024
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    contractions (peristalsis) of the stomach, resulting in food and liquid remaining in the stomach for a prolonged period of time. Stomach contents thus exit more...
    59 KB (6,278 words) - 22:52, 23 May 2024
  • Tumors of the stomach are known as gastric tumors, and can be either benign or malignant (gastric cancer). These tumors arise from the cells of the gastric...
    11 KB (1,135 words) - 17:00, 11 February 2023
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    water supply, which has been implicated in high rates of stomach and oesophageal cancers in areas with high bracken growth, such as Wales and South America...
    30 KB (3,494 words) - 04:45, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Achlorhydria
    from seafood) is increased. Even without bacterial overgrowth, low stomach acid (high pH) can lead to nutritional deficiencies through decreased absorption...
    13 KB (1,518 words) - 02:32, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gastrointestinal perforation
    Even with maximum treatment the risk of death can be as high as 50%. A hole from a stomach ulcer occurs in about 1 per 10,000 people per year, while...
    20 KB (1,876 words) - 08:42, 8 January 2024
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    gastrectomy (removal of the stomach) is performed and the cut end of the stomach is closed. The greater curvature of the stomach (not involved with the previous...
    2 KB (214 words) - 04:27, 22 May 2023
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    most aggressive and serious tumors located in the caudal (lower) UDT. High stomach cancer rates are found in Japan and North Wales, where the young stems...
    19 KB (2,237 words) - 19:05, 26 May 2024
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