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Webster 1913 Edition


Stomachic

Sto-mach′ic

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Noun.
(Med.)
A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.

Definition 2024


stomachic

stomachic

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Adjective

stomachic (comparative more stomachic, superlative most stomachic)

  1. Of or relating to the stomach.
  2. Beneficial to the stomach or to digestion.

Noun

stomachic (plural stomachics)

  1. A medicine for the stomach.
    • 1844, Richard Dennis Hoblyn, A Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Collateral Sciences:
      CALUMBÆ RADIX (Kalumbo, Portuguese). The root of the Cocculus palmatus, one of our most useful stomachics and tonics. It contains a bitter principle, called calumbin.