Gastric atrophy

Gastric atrophy
: A condition in which the stomach muscles shrink and become weak. It results in a lack of digestive juices. Gastritis: Inflammation of the stomach.

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marked reduction in thickness of the mucosa of the stomach, with complete or almost complete disappearance of gastric glands and pyloric glands, which are replaced by simple mucus-secreting epithelium; this is often accompanied by intestinal metaplasia.

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