gastric juice

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsgastric acid

   Broaderdigestive juice

Questions about gastric juice

What does gastric juice mean?

gastric juice 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 juice?

Close synonyms include gastric acid. 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 juice a common word?

gastric juice 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.