Achlorhydria

Absence of stomach acid secretions. This may be due to chronic atrophic gastritis or to an absence or malfunction of acid-producing parietal cells in the stomach lining. Achlorhydria may not produce symptoms but is associated with stomach cancer, however, and is a feature of pernicious anaemia (see anaemia, megaloblastic).

 

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