stomach
Description
The hollow, muscular organ in the abdomen that receives food from the esophagus. It makes digestive juices and mixes these juices with food to break it down into a thin liquid, which then passes it into the duodenum (the first part of the small intestine).
Gastric means referring to or having to do with the stomach, as in gastric polyp.
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