anadenia

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noun

Insufficiency or lack of glands, especially those of the gastrointestinal system.

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Meanings

noun
  1. medicineInsufficiency or lack of glands, especially those of the gastrointestinal system.

    From the above it is apparent that the clinical picture of achylia gastrica does not suffice to establish the diagnosis of anadenia ventriculi.

    1895, Medical Record, page 6
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    I have convinced myself in the postmortem room that many persons dying with the diagnosis of senile decay present extensive anadenia, generally combined with dilatation of the stomach.

    1892, Carl Anton Ewald, Lectures on Diseases of the Digestive Organs - Volume 2, page 533

    In anadenia there is an increase of the connective tissue accompanied by round cell infiltration, and a consequent choking up of the glands of the stomach, ending in loss of secretion of free HCl and other products

    1907, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Origin

From an- + -adenia.

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