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ACHLORHYDRIA
achlorhydria
(noun) an abnormal deficiency or absence of free hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice; often associated with severe anemias and cancer of the stomach
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
achlorhydria (countable and uncountable, plural achlorhydrias)
(medicine) The absence of hydrochloric acid in the stomach
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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