Assertion: ulcer's stomach | /r/CapableOf | produce acid
Facets:
value: in this condition
type: TEMPORAL
value: naturally
type: MANNER
value: to help digest food
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: The stomach naturally produces acid to help digest food.
text: Surgery used to be performed fairly routinely to take out the part of the stomach that makes acid,” says Patrick I. Okolo, III, MD, MPH, chief of endoscopy at Johns Hopkins Hospital and assistant professor of gastroenterology and hepatology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
text: Surgery on the nerves in your stomach may be done to help your stomach make less acid.
text: In this condition, the stomach makes too much acid, damaging the stomach lining.
text: Smoking increases someone's risk of getting an ulcer because the nicotine in cigarettes causes the stomach to produce more acid.
text: Zollinger-Ellison syndrome is a rare condition in which tumors form in the pancreas or upper gastrointestinal tract and over-secrete gastrin, a hormone that causes the stomach to produce too much acid.
text: In a natural grazing situation, the horse requires a steady flow of acid for digestion, so a horse’s stomach produces acid 24 hours a day, 7 days a week–up to 9 gallons of acidic fluid per day, even when not eating.