Part 4720

<i>Chaucer. Shak.</i>

<h1>Gaster</h1> <Xpage=614>

<hw>Gast"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To gast.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Beau. & Fl.</i>

<h1>Gasteromycetes</h1> <Xpage=614>

<hw>Gas`te*ro*my*ce"tes</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[NL., from Gr. <?/ stomach + <?/ a mushroom.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.</def>

<h1>Gasteropod</h1> <Xpage=614>

<hw>Gas"ter*o*pod</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Gastropod</er>.</def>

<h1>Gasteropoda</h1> <Xpage=614>

<hw>Gas`te*rop`o*da</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Gastropoda</er>.</def>

<h1>Gasteropodous</h1> <Xpage=614>

<hw>Gas`ter*op"o*dous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Gastropodous</er>.</def>

<mhw><h1>Gastful, Gastly</h1> <Xpage=614>

<hw>Gast"ful</hw>, <hw>Gast"ly</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt></mhw>, <tt>a.</tt> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <def>See <er>Ghastful</er>, <er>Ghastly</er>.</def>

<h1>Gastight</h1> <Xpage=614>

<hw>Gas"tight`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.</def>

<h1>Gastness</h1> <Xpage=614>

<hw>Gast"ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Ghastness</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Gastornis</h1> <Xpage=614>

<hw>Gas*tor"nis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., from <ets>Gaston</ets> M. Plante, the discover + Gr. <?/ bird.]</ety> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris basin.</def>

<h1>Gastr\'91a</h1> <Xpage=614>

<hw>Gas*tr\'91"a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., from Gr. <?/, <?/, the stomach.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>A primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to the hypothesis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the <i>Gastr\'91a theory</i> of Haeckel. See <er>Gastrula</er>.</def>

<h1>Gastralgia</h1> <Xpage=614>

<hw>Gas*tral"gi*a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/, <?/, stomach + <?/ pain.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders.</def>

<h1>Gastric</h1> <Xpage=614>

<hw>Gas"tric</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/, <?/, stomach: cf. F. <ets>gastrique</ets>.]</ety> <def>Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; <as>as, the <ex>gastric</ex> artery</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Gastric digestion</col> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld>, <cd>the conversion of the albuminous portion of food in the stomach into soluble and diffusible products by the solvent action of gastric juice.</cd> -- <col>Gastric fever</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>a fever attended with prominent gastric symptoms; -- a name applied to certain forms of typhoid fever; also, to catarrhal inflammation of the stomach attended with fever.</cd> -- <col>Gastric juice</col> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld>, <cd>a thin, watery fluid, with an acid reaction, secreted by a peculiar set of glands contained in the mucous membrane of the stomach. It consists mainly of dilute hydrochloric acid and the ferment pepsin. It is the most important digestive fluid in the body, but acts only on proteid foods.</cd> -- <col>Gastric remittent fever</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>a form of remittent fever with pronounced stomach symptoms.</cd></cs>

<h1>Gastriloquist</h1> <Xpage=614>