Word Meanings - GASTROCOLIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to both the stomach and the colon; as, the gastrocolic, or great, omentum.

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• COLONIZATION
  Tha act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.
• COLONEL
  The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.
• OMENTUM
  A free fold of the peritoneum, or one serving to connect viscera, support blood vessels, etc.; an epiploön. Note: The great, or gastrocolic, omentum forms, in most mammals, a great sac, which is attached to the stomach and transverse colon, is
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• COLONIAL
  Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.
• COLONELSHIP
  Colonelcy. Swift.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• COLONER
  A colonist. Holland
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• COLONY
  A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range. (more info) 1. A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent
• COLONICAL
  Of or pertaining to husbandmen.
• STOMACHAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the stomach; gastric. 2. Helping the stomach; stomachic; cordial.
• STOMACHY
  Obstinate; sullen; haughty. A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety. R. L. Stevenson.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• COLONIZER
  One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist. Bancroft.
• STOMACHER
  1. One who stomachs.
• STOMACHFUL
  Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse. -- Stom"ach*ful*ly, adv. -- Stom"ach*ful*ness, n.
• STOMACHING
  Resentment.
• STOMACHOUS
  Stout; sullen; obstinate. With stern looks and stomachous disdain. Spenser.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• TETRACOLON
  A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines. Crabb.
• HIGH-STOMACHED
  Having a lofty spirit; haughty. Shak.