pep·tic /ˈpɛptɪk/
 (a.)有助消化的,胃液素的健胃劑,消化器官


 pep·tic /ˈpɛptɪk/ 形容詞
 消化的,胃蛋白黴的


 Pep·tic a.
 1. Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.
 2. Able to digest. [R.]
    Tolerably nutritive for a mind as yet so peptic.   --Carlyle.
 3. Physiol. Chem. Pertaining to pepsin; resembling pepsin in its power of digesting or dissolving albuminous matter; containing or yielding pepsin, or a body of like properties; as, the peptic glands.


 Pep·tic, n.
 1. An agent that promotes digestion.
 2. pl. The digestive organs.
 Is there some magic in the place,
 Or do my peptics differ?   --Tennyson.

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 peptic
      adj : relating to or promoting digestion; "peptic juices"