Crossword-Solution: PEPTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Peptic | a. | Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces. |
| Peptic | a. | Able to digest. |
| Peptic | a. | Pertaining to pepsin; resembling pepsin in its power of digesting or dissolving albuminous matter; containing or yielding pepsin, or a body of like properties; as, the peptic glands. |
| Peptic | n. | An agent that promotes digestion. |
| Peptic | n. | The digestive organs. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “PEPTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| relating to digestion or the digestive juices | 1 answer |
| peptically | 1 answer |
| Type of ulcer | 1 answer |
| Related to digestion | 1 answer |
| Promoting digestion | 1 answer |
| Digestion-related | 1 answer |
| DIGESTIVE system (pert. to) | 1 answer |
| Kind of ulcer | 2 answers |
| Aiding digestion. | 2 answers |
| stomach ulcer | 4 answers |
| digestion | 7 answers |
| A GATHERING FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING FELLOWSHIP | 10 answers |
| AID DIGESTIVE | 10 answers |
| digestive protein | 10 answers |
| AFFECT WITH AN ULCER | 11 answers |
| A CANCEROUS ULCER OF SOFT TISSUE AND BONE | 11 answers |
| DIGESTIVE organ | 12 answers |
| DIGESTION AID | 13 answers |
| Digestive | 18 answers |
| Type of acid | 19 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with PEPTIC (5)
The muscular wall of the stomach is comparatively thick; it has externally strong muscles that accomplish the digestive movements, and internally a large quantity of small glands, the peptic glands, which secrete the gastric juice.
Each vial would then represent one of the glands of this coat, one of the gastric or peptic glands, as they are called.
Each cell is a little laboratory, which concocts out of the material brought to it or near it by the blood a certain potent, biting fluid, and is hence called a peptic or digestive cell.
And now the leaf's orgy begins: moistening the fly with a fresh peptic fluid, which helps in the assimilation, the plant proceeds to digest its food.
And the native discrimination was not altogether unpraiseworthy, if the later French missionaries can be exonerated from national prejudice, when they declare that the Caribs said Spaniards were meagre and indigestible, while a Frenchman made a succulent and peptic meal.
Quotes with PEPTIC (1)
Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1950–2019).