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gastroretentive

adj

Etymology

From gastro- + retentive.

  1. derived from retentus
  2. derived from retentivus
  3. derived from retentif
  4. borrowed from rétentif
  5. prefixed as gastroretentive — “gastro + retentive”

Definitions

  1. Facilitating retention in the gastrointestinal system for a long period of time.

    • A number of gastroretentive mechanisms have been evaluated, including mucoadhesion, floating dosage forms that use low-density matrices or gas generation, swelling matrices, and combinations thereof.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gastroretentive. 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