pepto-, pept-, -peptic, pepsi-, -pepsia, -pepsy (Greek: digestion, able to digest; cook; from "to cook, boil, digest")
apepsia
apepsinia
bradypepsia
Slowness of digestion.
dyscrasia, dyscrasial, dyscrasic
1. A depraved condition of the bodily system and especially of the blood, due to constitutional disease.
2. Generally bad health.
dyspeptic
1. Affected with or referring to dyspepsia (painful digestion).
2. Someone who is afflicted with dyspepsia.
3. Tending to produce dyspepsia; indigestible.
eupepsia
eupeptic
hyperpepsinia
An excess of pepsin in the gastric juice.
Pepsin is an enzyme produced in the stomach that breaks down proteins into simpler compounds. hypopepsinia
pepsin
pepsinate
pepsinia
pepsiniferous
pepsinogen
pepsinogenous
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