gastric ulcer

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   a peptic ulcer of the stomach

   Broaderpeptic ulcer

Questions about gastric ulcer

What does gastric ulcer mean?

gastric ulcer means "a peptic ulcer of the stomach".

Is gastric ulcer a common word?

gastric ulcer 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.