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HYDROCHLORIC ACID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydrochloric acid mean? 

HYDROCHLORIC ACID (noun)
  The noun HYDROCHLORIC ACID has 1 sense:

1. an aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride; a strongly corrosive acidplay

  Familiarity information: HYDROCHLORIC ACID used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HYDROCHLORIC ACID (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride; a strongly corrosive acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

chlorohydric acid; hydrochloric acid

Hypernyms ("hydrochloric acid" is a kind of...):

acid (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hydrochloric acid"):

muriatic acid (a former name for hydrochloric acid)


 Context examples 


ECL cells respond to gastrin by releasing their secretory products and this source of histamine acts as the positive paracrine stimulator of the release of hydrochloric acid from the parietal cell.

(Enterochromaffin-Like Cell, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Gastric Acid Secretion Inhibition involves interference with, or restraint of, hydrochloric acid release from gastric cells into the lumen of the stomach.

(Gastric Acid Secretion Inhibition, NCI Thesaurus)

The digestive secretions of the gastric glands in the stomach, consisting mainly of pepsin, hydrochloric acid, rennin, and mucin.

(Gastric Secretion, NCI Thesaurus)

Gastric Acid Secretion Induction involves stimulation of hydrochloric acid release from gastric cells into the lumen of the stomach.

(Gastric Acid Secretion Induction, NCI Thesaurus)

An example of an acid is hydrochloric acid.

(Acid, NCI Dictionary)

Cells of the gastric glands which secrete hydrochloric acid and intrinsic factor.

(Parietal Cell, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A lack of hydrochloric acid in the digestive juices in the stomach.

(Achlorhydria, NCI Dictionary)

Gastric acid is made of hydrochloric acid.

(Gastric acid, NCI Dictionary)

The mucosa of the stomach consists of secretory cells that produce hydrochloric acid and gastric enzymes.

(Gastric Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

A stable, white, crystalline chlorinated hydrocarbon that emits very toxic fumes of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrochloric acid and other chlorinated compounds when heated to decomposition.

(Hexachlorobenzene, NCI Thesaurus)



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