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gastroretention

noun

Etymology

From gastro- + retention.

  1. derived from retentiō
  2. inherited from retencioun
  3. prefixed as gastroretention — “gastro + retention”

Definitions

  1. The retention of a drug in the gastrointestinal tract

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gastroretention. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA