achylian.
/ˌeɪˈkʌɪlɪə/, U.S. /ˌeɪˈkaɪliə/ Medicine.
Absent or reduced secretion by part of the digestive tract; esp. (more fully achylia gastrica) absence of the secretion of gastric fluid (as in atrophic gastritis). Cf. achylous adj.
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cacochylia1706
achylia1879
chylorrhœa1885
1879 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Achylia,..defect of chyle.
1892 M. Einhorn in Med. Rec. 11 June 653/2 Those affected with achylia gastrica, after established compensation, can exist for an unlimited length of time... As the pathologic-anatomical base we might with some certainty suppose in all cases of gastric achylia a complete atrophy of the mucous membrane of the stomach.
1909 Practitioner Nov. 735 Iodized solutions of potassium iodide suit the stenotic forms of chronic gastritis and cases of total gastric achylia.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxvi. 698 The hydrochloric acid may be present in excess (hyperchlorhydria), in diminished amount (hypochlorhydria), or entirely absent (achlorhydria or achylia gastrica).
1968 Jrnl. Pediatrics 73 39/1 In childhood, tests of function have been designed mainly for the diagnosis of pancreatic achylia in cystic fibrosis.
2007 Blood Cells, Molecules & Dis. 37 179/1 Abnormal gastric secretion associated with pernicious anaemia was well recognized and designated ‘achylia gastrica’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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