exogastric
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]exogastric (not comparable)
- Outside of the stomach.
- 2007, Alan H. Freeman, Radiology of the Stomach and Duodenum, page 139:
- Preoperatively and intraoperatively it is difficult to distinguish benign and malignant lesions; all may demonstrate a mixture of intramural, endogastric and exogastric appearances.
- Of the shell of a mollusc, curving forwards towards the head.
- 1957, Rousseau Hayner Flower, Curt Teichert, The cephalopod order Discosorida, page 41:
- Vexing are two exogastric genera of the Simard limestone.
- 1998, Norman Dennis Newell, Bivalves: An Eon of Evolution:
- 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.