Peptic

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1. Adjective

Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.

2. Adjective

Able to digest.

3. Adjective

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.

4. Noun

An agent that promotes digestion.

5. Noun

The digestive organs.
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