1. of, pertaining to, or affecting the stomach and intestines.
Examples from the web for gastrointestinal
- Kept getting admitted for weird gastrointestinal complaints.
- In one drug trial, some of the patients receiving a placebo were told they might experience gastrointestinal irritation.
- With little fiber humans suffered from constipation and increased risks of gastrointestinal cancers.
- Increases in both gastrointestinal infections and pneumonias have been seen in children and adults who take acid suppressors.
- Walker still suffers from allergies and from occasional gastrointestinal difficulties.
- There are patients who experience gastrointestinal disease, colitis, inflammatory bowel disease.
- Then chronic respiratory and gastrointestinal conditions began to surface.
- In a healthy human without gastrointestinal diseases, bacteria are only found in the large intestine.
- They think there's something in their gastrointestinal flora that makes it so they don't produce methane.
- Also, people tend to eat dirt when they're suffering from gastrointestinal distress.
British Dictionary definitions for gastrointestinal
adjective 1. of or relating to the stomach and intestinal tract
Word Origin and History for gastrointestinal
gastrointestinal in Medicine
gastrointestinal gas·tro·in·tes·ti·nal (gās'trō-ĭn-těs'tə-nəl)
adj.
Abbr. GI Relating to the stomach and the intestines.