nonerosive

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adjective

Not erosive.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivenonerosive (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot erosive.

    Immune-mediated polyarthritis is classified as either erosive or nonerosive on the basis of the presence or absence of radiographically evident joint destruction.

    2014, Richard W. Nelson, Small Animal Internal Medicine, page 1117
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    The blue clay while under water is "soft and very easily eroded," according to a report by Lieutenant Rees, and "nonerosive, very difficult of removal by any process" according to the contractor.

    1901 June 8, The Engineering Record, volume 43, number 23, page 540

    Shindo et al. studied 151 patients with functional dyspepsia or nonerosive reflux disease and found that acylated ghrelin levels were significantly lower in NERD patients and that 33% of NERD patients exhibited delayed gastric emptying.

    2015 October 28, “Associations of Circulating Gut Hormone and Adipocytokine Levels with the Spectrum of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

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