#apepsic
- Apeptic — Suffering from apepsia or relating to the total absence of pepsin secretion and proper gastric digestion; characterized by the lack of proteolytic enzymes in the gastric juice. This term describes a severe dysfunctional state of the stomach mucosa, being closely linked to profound atrophic gastritis.
- Apeptic — Relating to apepsia or characterized by the absence of pepsin and normal gastric fermentation; regarded as a semantic and etymological variant for 'apepsic'. It describes a faulty functional state in which the gastric juice loses its acidic and proteolytic properties necessary for the first stage of digestion.