Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric: as, stomachal tubes.
- Relating to the stomach, or to a region of the body which contains the stomach; gastric; epigastric; abdominal; ventral: as, the stomachal part of a crab's carapace.
- Remedial of a disordered stomach; peptic or digestive; cordial; stomachic.
- noun A stomachic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric.
- adjective Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.
- noun A stomachic.
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- noun obsolete A
stomachic .
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- adjective relating to or involving the stomach
Etymologies
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Examples
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Eat this slice of marchpane, it will help your digestion; then shall you be presented with a cup of claret hippocras, which is right healthful and stomachal.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But animals, with scarcely an exception, and conspicuously all such as are capable of locomotion, are provided with a stomachal sac, which is as it were an internal substitute for the earth.
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Eat this slice of marchpane, it will help your digestion; then shall you be presented with a cup of claret hippocras, which is right healthful and stomachal.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For nature is thus enabled to allot to each stomachal compartment and ovum its separate and similar tooth.
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Beverage, far from being suppressed, should be augmented, in order to facilitate stomachal digestion and promote general nutrition, though alcoholic liquids must be inhibited; likewise mineral waters, except, perhaps, for occasional use.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 Various
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Some months later a small fold or doubling of the stomachal coats slightly protruded until the whole aperture was filled, so as to supersede the necessity of a compress, the protruding coats acting as a valve when the stomach was filled.
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Some months later a small fold or doubling of the stomachal coats slightly protruded until the whole aperture was filled, so as to supersede the necessity of a compress, the protruding coats acting as a valve when the stomach was filled.
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[Illustration: Outline of the Stomach of a Calf about a fortnight old.] [Illustration: Outline of the Stomach of a full-grown Cow.] [These engravings, illustrative of the comparative sizes of the different stomachal cavities, are copied from original drawings taken from preparations of the stomachs which I made expressly for this purpose.]
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On the following evening I went to see if anything remained of this gentle girl, so sweet, so loving, but I found nothing but a fragment of the 'os stomachal,' in which, is spite of this, there still remained some moisture, and which some say still trembled like a woman does in the same place.
Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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On the following evening I went to see if anything remained of this gentle girl, so sweet, so loving, but I found nothing but a fragment of the 'os stomachal,' in which, is spite of this, there still remained some moisture, and which some say still trembled like a woman does in the same place.
Droll Stories — Volume 2 Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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