gastrin
1: polypeptide hormone secreted by the mucous lining of the stomach; induces the secretion of gastric juice
gastritis
1: inflammation of the lining of the stomach; nausea and loss of appetite and discomfort after eating
Gastroboletus
1: a genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae; they resemble boletes but the spores are not discharged from the basidium [syn: {genus Gastroboletus}]
gastrocnemius
1: the muscle in the back part of the leg that forms the greater part of the calf; responsible for the plantar flexion of the foot [syn: {gastrocnemius muscle}]
gastrocnemius muscle
1: the muscle in the back part of the leg that forms the greater part of the calf; responsible for the plantar flexion of the foot [syn: {gastrocnemius}]
gastrocolic omentum
1: part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines [syn: {greater omentum}, {caul}]
Gastrocybe
1: a genus of fungi of the family Secotiaceae [syn: {genus Gastrocybe}]
Gastrocybe lateritia
1: a species of Gastrocybe fungus that has a conic cap and a thin stalk; at first the stalk is upright but as it matures the stalk bends over and then downward; the cap then gelatinizes and a slimy ma...
gastroenteritis
1: inflammation of the stomach and intestines; can be caused by Salmonella enteritidis [syn: {stomach flu}, {intestinal flu}]
gastroenterologist
1: a physician who specializes in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract
gastroenterology
1: the branch of medicine that studies the gastrointestinal tract and its diseases
gastroenterostomy
1: surgical creation of an opening between the stomach wall and the small intestines; performed when the normal opening has been eliminated
gastroepiploic vein
1: one of two veins serving the great curvature of the stomach [syn: {gastroomental vein}, {vena gastroomentalis}]
gastroesophageal reflux
1: reflux of stomach contents into the esophagus [syn: {esophageal reflux}, {oesophageal reflux}]
gastrogavage
1: feeding a nutrient solution into the stomach through a tube through a surgically created opening
gastrointestinal
1: of or relating to the stomach and intestines; "a gastrointestinal disorder" [syn: {gi}]
gastrointestinal system
1: the system that makes food absorbable into the body [syn: {digestive system}, {systema alimentarium}, {systema digestorium}]
gastrointestinal tract
1: tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about 8.3 meters from mouth to anus; functions in digestion and elimination [syn: {alimentary canal}, {alimentary tract}, {digestive tube}, {...
gastrolobium
1: any of various Australian evergreen shrubs of the genus Gastrolobium having whorled compound leaves poisonous to livestock and showy yellow to deep reddish-orange flowers followed by two-seeded pod...
gastromy
1: surgical incision into the stomach
gastromycete
1: any fungus of the class Gasteromycetes [syn: {gasteromycete}]
Gastromycetes
1: fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi [syn: {Gasteromycetes}, {class Gasteromycetes}, {class Gastromycetes}]
gastronome
1: a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) [syn: {epicure}, {gourmet}, {bon vivant}, {epicurean}, {foodie}]
gastronomic
1: of or relating to gastronomy; "gastronomic adventures" [syn: {gastronomical}]
gastronomical
1: of or relating to gastronomy; "gastronomic adventures" [syn: {gastronomic}]
gastronomy
1: a particular style of cookery (as of a region); "New England gastronomy" 2: the art and practice of choosing and preparing and eating good food
gastroomental vein
1: one of two veins serving the great curvature of the stomach [syn: {gastroepiploic vein}, {vena gastroomentalis}]
Gastrophryne
1: primarily tropical narrow-mouthed toads [syn: {genus Gastrophryne}]
Gastrophryne olivacea
1: small secretive toad with smooth tough skin of central and western North America [syn: {western narrow-mouthed toad}]
gastropod
1: a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes [syn: {univalve}]
Gastropoda
1: snails and slugs and their relatives [syn: {class Gastropoda}, {Gasteropoda}, {class Gasteropoda}]
gastroscope
1: a type of endoscope for visually examining the stomach
gastroscopy
1: visual examination of the stomach by means of a gastroscope inserted through the esophagus
gastrostomy
1: surgical creation of an opening through the abdominal wall into the stomach (as for gastrogavage)
gastrula
1: double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm [also: {gas...
gastrulation
1: the process in which a gastrula develops from a blastula by the inward migration of cells
gasworks
1: the workplace where coal gas is manufactured
gat
1: a gangster's pistol [syn: {rod}]
gate
1: a door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall 2: a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs [syn: {logic gate}] 3: total ...
gate-crash
1: enter uninvited; informal; "let's crash the party!" [syn: {barge in}, {crash}]
gate-crashing
1: of those who go where they are not invited; "gate-crashing guests disrupted the party"
gateau
1: any of various rich and elaborate cakes [also: {gateaux} (pl)]
gatecrasher
1: someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying [syn: {crasher}, {unwelcome guest}]
gatefold
1: an oversize page that is folded in to a book or magazine [syn: {foldout}]
gatehouse
1: a house built at a gateway; usually the gatekeeper's residence
gatekeeper
1: someone who controls access to something; "there are too many gatekepers between the field officers and the chief" 2: someone who guards an entrance [syn: {doorkeeper}, {doorman}, {door guard}, {ha...
gateleg table
1: a drop-leaf table with the drop-leaves supported by hinged legs
gatepost
1: either of two posts that bound a gate
Gates
1: United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955) [syn: {Bill Gates}, {William Henry Gates}]
gateway
1: an entrance that can be closed by a gate
gateway drug
1: a habit-forming drug that is not addictive but its use may lead to the use of other addictive drugs; "one college athlete recently called beer a gateway drug for young people"
Gateway to the West
1: the largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century [sy...
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gather
1: sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching [syn: {gathering}] 2: the act of gathering something [syn: {gathering}] v 1: assemble or get togeth...
gather in
1: fold up; "take in the sails" [syn: {take in}]
gather up
1: take and lift upward [syn: {pick up}, {lift up}] 2: gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up our trash twice a week...
gathered
1: having accumulated or become more intense; "the deepened gloom" [syn: {deepened}] 2: brought together in one place; "the collected works of Milton"; "the gathered folds of the skirt" [syn: {collect...
gathered skirt
1: a skirt whose fabric is drawn together around the waist
gatherer
1: a person who gathers; "they were a society of hunters and gatherers" 2: a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) [syn: {collector}, {accumulator}]
gathering
1: accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the gathering darkness"; "the thickening dusk" [syn: {deepening(a)}, {gathering(a)}, {thickening(a)}] n 1: a...
Gathic
1: an ancient Iranian language
Gatling
1: United States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903) [syn: {Richard Jordan Gatling}]
Gatling gun
1: an early form of machine gun having several barrels that fire in sequence as they are rotated
gator
1: either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with with shorter broader snouts [syn: {alligator}]
GATT
1: a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas [syn: {General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade}]
gauche
1: lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always may be feel gauche" [syn: {graceless}, {unpolished}]
gaucheness
1: an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement; "the whole town was famous for its crudeness" [syn: {crudeness}, {crudity}]
gaucherie
1: the quality of being rustic or gauche [syn: {rusticity}] 2: a socially awkward or tactless act [syn: {faux pas}, {gaffe}, {solecism}, {slip}]
gaucho
1: a cowboy of the South American pampas
gaud
1: cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: {bangle}, {bauble}, {gewgaw}, {novelty}, {fallal}, {trinket}]
gaudery
1: cheap or pretentious display
Gaudi
1: Spanish architect who was a leading exponent of art nouveau in Europe (1852-1926) [syn: {Antonio Gaudi}, {Gaudi i Cornet}, {Antonio Gaudi i Cornet}]
Gaudi i Cornet
1: Spanish architect who was a leading exponent of art nouveau in Europe (1852-1926) [syn: {Gaudi}, {Antonio Gaudi}, {Antonio Gaudi i Cornet}]
gaudily
1: in a tastelessly garish manner; "the temple was garishly decorated with bright plastic flowers" [syn: {garishly}, {tawdrily}]
gaudiness
1: tasteless showiness [syn: {flashiness}, {garishness}, {loudness}, {brashness}, {meretriciousness}, {tawdriness}, {glitz}] 2: strident color or excessive ornamentation [syn: {garishness}]
gaudy
1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: {brassy}, {cheap}, {flash}, {...
gauffer
1: an iron used to press pleats and ridges [syn: {goffer}] 2: an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats [syn: {goffer}] v : make wavy with a heated goffering iron; "goffer the trim of the dress" [sy...
gauge
1: a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. [syn: {gage}] 2: accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or qu...
gauge boson
1: a particle that mediates the interaction of two elementary particles
Gauguin
1: French post-impressionist painter who worked in the South Pacific (1848-1903) [syn: {Paul Gauguin}]
Gaul
1: a person of French descent [syn: {frog}] 2: a Celt of ancient Gaul 3: an ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the...
Gaultheria
1: widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs [syn: {genus Gaultheria}]
Gaultheria hispidula
1: slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough-hairy seeds [syn: {creeping snowberry}, {moxie plum}, {maidenhair...
Gaultheria procumbens
1: creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil [syn: {teaberry}, {wintergreen}, ...
Gaultheria shallon
1: small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries [syn: {salal}, {shallon}]
gaumless
1: British informal [syn: {gormless}]
gaunt
1: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept...
gauntlet
1: to offer or accept a challenge; "threw down the gauntlet"; "took up the gauntlet" [syn: {gantlet}] 2: a glove of armored leather; protects the hand [syn: {gantlet}, {metal glove}] 3: a glove with l...
gauntleted
1: wearing a protective glove; "gestured with his gauntleted hand"
gauntness
1: extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) [syn: {bonyness}, {emaciation}, {maceration}]
gauntry
1: a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc. [syn: {gantry}]
gaur
1: wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India [syn: {Bibos gaurus}]
Gauri
1: in Hinduism, goddess of purity and posterity and a benevolent aspect of Devi; the `brilliant'
gauss
1: a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter 2: German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and ast...
Gaussian
1: of or relating to Karl Gauss or his mathematical theories of magnetics or electricity or astronomy or probability; "Gaussian distribution"
Gaussian curve
1: a symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution [syn: {normal curve}, {bell-shaped curve}, {Gaussian shape}]
Gaussian distribution
1: a theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance [syn: {normal distribution}]
Gaussian shape
1: a symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution [syn: {normal curve}, {bell-shaped curve}, {Gaussian curve}]
gaussmeter
1: a meter to compare strengths of magnetic fields [syn: {magnetometer}]
Gautama
1: founder of Buddhism; worshipped as a god (c 563-483 BC) [syn: {Buddha}, {the Buddha}, {Siddhartha}, {Gautama Siddhartha}, {Gautama Buddha}]
Gautama Buddha
1: founder of Buddhism; worshipped as a god (c 563-483 BC) [syn: {Buddha}, {the Buddha}, {Siddhartha}, {Gautama}, {Gautama Siddhartha}]
Gautama Siddhartha
1: founder of Buddhism; worshipped as a god (c 563-483 BC) [syn: {Buddha}, {the Buddha}, {Siddhartha}, {Gautama}, {Gautama Buddha}]
gauze
1: (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings [syn: {gauze bandage}] 2: a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave [syn: {netting}, {veiling}]
gauze bandage
1: (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings [syn: {gauze}]
gauzy
1: so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous...
gavage
1: feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat [syn: {forced feeding}]
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