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Definition of Dyspepsia
1. Noun. A disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea.
Generic synonyms: Symptom
Terms within: Bellyache, Gastralgia, Stomach Ache, Stomachache
Derivative terms: Dyspeptic
Definition of Dyspepsia
1. Noun. (pathology) A generic term for mild disorders of digestion, characterised by stomach pain, discomfort, heartburn and nausea, often following a meal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dyspepsia
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Medical Definition of Dyspepsia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dyspepsia
Literary usage of Dyspepsia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy: Including the Special by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1909)
"Arsenic, drop doses of Fowler's solution before meals in irritative dyspepsia (B);
also when diarrhea is excited by food (R). Bryonia, in dyspepsia of ..."
2. A Handbook of materia medica, pharmacy and therapeutics by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1901)
"Bismuth, mixed with vegetable Charcoal in flatulent dyspepsia (R) ; gr. x with
... -fa of alkaloid, in atonic dyspepsia promotes secretion and increases the ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"BY the expression "intestinal dyspepsia" we understand conditions in which the
digestive function of the intestinal tract is disturbed. ..."
4. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: designed for the use of by William Osler (1892)
"(2) Nervous dyspepsia.—According to Leube, who first separated it from the ...
If in a case of dyspepsia the stomach is found empty seven hours after the ..."
5. Sharps and Flats by Eugene Field (1900)
"How Job Suffered from dyspepsia BY those who know whereof they speak it is admitted
that of all the maladies wherewith man is afflicted there is none more ..."
6. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1855)
"INDIGESTION, or dyspepsia. Under this name have often been confounded various
morbid states of the stomach, such as chronic gastritis, irritations of all ..."
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