pepto-, pept-, -peptic, pepsi-, -pepsia, -pepsy

(Greek: digestion, able to digest; cook; from "to cook, boil, digest")

apepsia

apepsinia

bradypepsia

Slowness of digestion.

dyscrasia, dyscrasial, dyscrasic

1. A depraved condition of the bodily system and especially of the blood, due to constitutional disease.
2. Generally bad health.

dyspeptic

1. Affected with or referring to dyspepsia (painful digestion).
2. Someone who is afflicted with dyspepsia.
3. Tending to produce dyspepsia; indigestible.

eupepsia

eupeptic

hyperpepsinia

An excess of pepsin in the gastric juice.

Pepsin is an enzyme produced in the stomach that breaks down proteins into simpler compounds.

hypopepsinia

pepsin

pepsinate

pepsinia

pepsiniferous

pepsinogen

pepsinogenous

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pepto-, pept-, -peptic, pepsi-, -pepsia, -pepsy

(Greek: digestion, able to digest; cook; from "to cook, boil, digest")

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