- 1腸胃的；胃腸道的
Gastrointestinal means of or about the stomach and the . Doctors often it to GI, as in the GI tract — the stretch of tube where food is broken down after you swallow it. You will see it on hospital signs and in : gastrointestinal symptoms (vomiting, , belly pain), gastrointestinal bleeding, and so on. It is a formal medical adjective. Ordinary talk uses stomach and gut, or . Though actually the whole path also includes the mouth and the food pipe; gastrointestinal is strictly the stomach-and- stretch, but people sometimes stretch it to mean the whole system.
From the word’s history
gastro- + intestinal.
由 gastro-「胃」加上 intestinal「腸的」組成。
組成gastro- (stomach, from Greek γαστήρ) + intestinal (of the intestines). From gastro- + intestinal.
同家族的字
- gastroenteritissame gastro- + intestines; that one is the illness
- intestinalthe second half: of the intestines
- intestinethe organ the second half names
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gastrointestinaladj/ˌɡæstɹəʊɪnˈtɛstɪnəl/
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Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines, and thus to digestion.
- Avian pox viruses (Poxviridae), are chordopoxviruses that infect domestic and wild game birds including hawks, seagulls, parrots, canaries, pigeons, hawks and fowl, causing cutaneous, respiratory and gastrointestinal lesions in their host [17 ].
- She has always struggled with her gastrointestinal health, and when she started to have symptoms similar to those of colorectal cancer, she called her primary care physician, who referred her to a gastroenterologist, who ordered a colonoscopy. She did not have cancer.
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