gastromalacia

English edit

Etymology edit

New Latin, from Ancient Greek, meaning "stomach softness".

Noun edit

gastromalacia (uncountable)

(medicine) A softening of the coatings of the stomach, usually after death.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gastromalacia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)