gastric smear

1. 1.

   alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the stomach

   Broaderalimentary tract smear

Questions about gastric smear

What does gastric smear mean?

gastric smear means "alimentary tract smear of material obtained from the stomach".

Is gastric smear a common word?

gastric smear 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.