Definition of Hyperacidity

1. Noun. Excessive acidity.

Generic synonyms: Acidity

Definition of Hyperacidity

1. Noun. The condition of containing more than the normal amount of acid. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hyperacidity

1. [n -TIES]

Medical Definition of Hyperacidity

1. The increased production of acid in the stomach. See: peptic ulcer disease. (06 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperacidity

hyperabsolutism
hyperacanthosis
hyperaccreting
hyperaccretion
hyperaccumulating
hyperaccumulation
hyperaccumulations
hyperaccumulator
hyperaccumulators
hyperacetylate
hyperacetylated
hyperacetylation
hyperacetylations
hyperacid
hyperacidities
hyperacidity (current term)
hyperactitivity
hyperactivate
hyperactivated
hyperactivates
hyperactive
hyperactive child syndrome
hyperactively
hyperactiveness
hyperactives
hyperactivism
hyperactivities
hyperactivity
hyperacuities

Literary usage of Hyperacidity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"Constipation is relatively frequent in patients with gastric hyperacidity, but the relation between the two is by no means clear. On the one hand, ..."

2. Handbook of Therapy by Oliver Thomas Osborne, Morris Fishbein (1918)
"hyperacidity The changes of opinion that have occurred and the changes in method of treatment in the so-called hyperacidity of the stomach were reviewed by ..."

3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Effect of hyperacidity on Gastric Digestion In hyperacidity the gastric contents become acid more promptly than usual. This shortens the period during which ..."

4. Diseases of the Digestive Organs: With Special Reference to Their Diagnosis by Charles Dettie Aaron (1921)
"Some writers maintain that hyperacidity is not a clinical entity, but merely one aspect of hypersécrétion. This view is in opposition to a convincing array ..."

5. Clinical Diagnosis: A Text-book of Clinical Microscopy and Clinical by Charles Phillips Emerson (1908)
"By " hyperacidity" is meant the secretion of abnormally acid gastric juice during digestion ... hyperacidity is qualitative, hypersécrétion is quantitative, ..."

6. The Principles of Therapeutics by Oliver Thomas Osborne (1921)
"Gastric hyperacidity.—The saliva should be about neutral in ... It is doubtful if there is always an excess of acid when there are symptoms of hyperacidity; ..."

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