gastric acid

1. 1.

   digestive secretions of the stomach glands consisting chiefly of hydrochloric acid and mucin and the enzymes pepsin and rennin and lipase

   Synonymsgastric juice

   Broaderdigestive juice

Questions about gastric acid

What does gastric acid mean?

gastric acid means "digestive secretions of the stomach glands consisting chiefly of hydrochloric acid and mucin and the enzymes pepsin and rennin and lipase".

What is another word for gastric acid?

Close synonyms include gastric juice. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gastric acid a common word?

gastric acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.