Gastricity

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /gæˈstɹɪsɪtɪ/
• UK IPA: /gaˈstɹɪsáµ»ti/

Origin

Formed as gastric + -ity in parallel with the French gastricité (formed as gastrique + -ité).

Full definition of gastricity

Noun

1. (rare and probably obsolete) A state of gastric disturbance.
• 1796, Andrew Duncan, the elder, Annals of Medicine, volume I, page 69:But sometimes the author saw with astonishment the bark overcome the gastricity.
• 1885, in The New Sydenham Society’s Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences