gastricity

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Etymology

Formed as gastric +‎ -ity in parallel with the French gastricité (formed as gastrique +‎ -ité).

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Noun

gastricity (uncountable)

  1. (rare and probably obsolete) A state of gastric disturbance.
    • 1796, Andrew Duncan, Annals of Medicine, volume I, page 69:
      But sometimes the author saw with astonishment the bark overcome the gastricity.
    • 1885, The New Sydenham Society’s Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences:

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