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GASTRIC JUICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Digestive secretions of the stomach glands consisting chiefly of hydrochloric acid and mucin and the enzymes pepsin and rennin and lipase
Synonyms:
gastric acid; gastric juice
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("gastric juice" is a kind of...):
digestive fluid; digestive juice (secretions that aid digestion)
Meronyms (substance of "gastric juice"):
lipase (an enzyme secreted in the digestive tract that catalyzes the breakdown of fats into individual fatty acids that can be absorbed into the bloodstream)
pepsin (an enzyme produced in the stomach that splits proteins into peptones)
chymosin; rennin (an enzyme that occurs in gastric juice; causes milk to coagulate)
