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GASTRITIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the lining of the stomach; nausea and loss of appetite and discomfort after eating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("gastritis" is a kind of...):

inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gastritis"):

acute gastritis (gastritis caused by ingesting an irritant (as too much aspirin))

chronic gastritis (persistent gastritis can be a symptom of a gastric ulcer or pernicious anemia or stomach cancer or other disorders)

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 Context examples: 

It may be associated with autoimmune chronic atrophic gastritis, multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1, or it may be sporadic.

(Gastric Neuroendocrine Tumor G1, NCI Thesaurus)

The impaired absorption of vitamin B-12 is secondary to atrophic gastritis and loss of gastric parietal cells.

(Pernicious anemia, NCI Thesaurus)

It most commonly develops after a long period of atrophic gastritis and is strongly associated with Helicobacter pylori infection.

(Gastric Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

H. mustelae is part of the normal flora of the ferret gastrointestinal tract and causes peptic ulcer disease and chronic atrophic gastritis.

(Helicobacter mustelae, NCI Thesaurus)

Aluminum and magnesium antiacids may be used to treat symptoms of peptic ulcer, gastritis, esophagitis, hiatal hernia and gastric hyperacidity.

(Aluminum Magnesium, NCI Thesaurus)