gastricism

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English

Etymology

From gastric +‎ -ism.

Noun

gastricism (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, dated) Any gastric disorder, such as dyspepsia or indigestion.
    • 1878, C. F. Panelli, A Treatise on Typhoid Fever: And Its Homoeopathic Treatment, page 50:
      Hence it happens, that, unreflecting physicians are often ignorant of the true efficient cause of this disease, for, among the non-natural causes and gastricism they find the usual cause of its being []