The pattern of gastric emptying: a new view of old results.
1. Gastric emptying has until now been regarded as exponential in form, but this pattern does not account for all phases of a meal.2. A pattern of emptying in which the square root of the volume of meal remaining declines linearly with time has been shown to account for the experimental results with less error.
D006801:Humans; D013270:Stomach / Q000502:physiology*