Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

exogastric

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ex-o-gas-tric
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Outside of the stomach.

adj

Of the shell of a mollusc, curving forwards towards the head.

Example Sentences

"Preoperatively and intraoperatively it is difficult to distinguish benign and malignant lesions; all may demonstrate a mixture of intramural, endogastric and exogastric appearances."
"Vexing are two exogastric genera of the Simard limestone."
"I interpret Mellopegma as exogastric and separate it from Peel's (1991) class Helcionelloida because of its extremely narrow aperture with uniformly ventrally curved lateral margins."

Etymology

From exo- + gastric.

Derived Forms

exogastrically

Frequently Paired Words

endogastric

Questions

What does exogastric mean?: Outside of the stomach.
Where does exogastric come from?: From exo- + gastric.

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