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Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.
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Able to digest.
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Pertaining to pepsin; resembling pepsin in its power of digesting or dissolving albuminous matter; containing or yielding pepsin, or a body of like properties; as, the peptic glands.
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An agent that promotes digestion.
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The digestive organs.
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An herb or substance that aides in the digestion of food. (Syn: Digestive, Eupeptic)
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Pertaining to pepsin or to digestion; related to the action of gastric juices.!-- google_ad_client = "pub-6700624969687881"; google_ad_width = 234; google_ad_height = 60; google_ad_format = "234x60_as"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_ad_channel ="7512561969"; google_color_border = "FFFFFF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "448079"; google_color_url = "448079"; google_color_text = "414141";
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Relating to pepsin, a digestive enzyme. For example, an ulcer is called a peptic ulcer because pepsin contributes to the injury.
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relating to or promoting digestion; "peptic juices"
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To do with pepsin or digestion.
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pertaining to gastric secretions and areas affected by them
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related to the stomach and the duodenum, where pepsin is present.
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Pertaining to digestion or the enzyme pepsin.
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Pertaining to gastric secretions as well as areas affected by them
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Relating to secretions of digestive juices.
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A description relating to digestion.
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