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Amylin is a hormone that is co-secreted with insulin through the pancreas and helps regulate blood glucose levels, appetite and gastric emptying, which is the process of food moving from the stomach to the intestines.—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2025 The medications are known to delay gastric emptying, slowing down how quickly alcohol gets absorbed.—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2025 In those tests, MEDS was able to deposit bio-ink in the gastric tracts of rabbits.—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025 That includes colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, gastric cancer and biliary tract cancer.—Andrea Kane, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gastric
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Etymology
Greek gastr-, gastēr, alteration of *grastēr, from gran to gnaw, eat
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