Definition of Dyspeptic

1. Adjective. Suffering from dyspepsia.

Similar to: Ill, Sick
Derivative terms: Dyspepsia

2. Noun. A person suffering from indigestion.

3. Adjective. Irritable as if suffering from indigestion.
Exact synonyms: Atrabilious, Bilious, Liverish
Similar to: Ill-natured
Derivative terms: Biliousness

Definition of Dyspeptic

1. a. Pertaining to dyspepsia; having dyspepsia; as, a dyspeptic or dyspeptical symptom.

2. n. A person afflicted with dyspepsia.

Definition of Dyspeptic

1. Adjective. (not comparable) Of, relating to, or having dyspepsia or indigestion. ¹

2. Adjective. (comparable) Irritable or morose. ¹

3. Noun. A dyspeptic person. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dyspeptic

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Dyspeptic

1. Relating to or suffering from dyspepsia. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dyspeptic

dysosmia
dysosmias
dysosmic
dysosteogenesis
dysostoses
dysostosis
dysostosis multiplex
dysoxic
dyspallia
dyspathy
dyspepsia
dyspepsias
dyspepsies
dyspepsy
dyspeptic (current term)
dyspeptical
dyspeptically
dyspeptics
dyspeptone
dyspeptones
dysphagia
dysphagia lusoria
dysphagia nervosa
dysphagias
dysphagic
dysphagocytosis
dysphagy
dysphasia
dysphasias

Literary usage of Dyspeptic

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

1. Diseases of the stomach: A Text-book for Practitioners and Students by Max Einhorn (1903)
"Cases of dyspeptic asthma can conveniently be classed into two main groups: (1) Cases in which dyspeptic asthma appears in an acute form, periodically; ..."

2. Sharps and Flats by Eugene Field (1900)
"Ye Plainte of a dyspeptic February 25, 1884 DYSPEPSIA is a thankless malady. No matter how wretchedly the victim feels, he gets no sympathy whatsoever. ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1872)
"... locomotor ataxy, cerebral abscess, alcoholism, syphilis, rheumatism, gout, peripheral irritation, including colic, and dyspeptic headache. ..."

4. A Treatise on Diet: With a View to Establish on Practical Grounds a System by John Ayrton Paris (1826)
"It is notorious that all dyspeptic persons are especially languid in the ... The dyspeptic patient should rise from his bed as soon as he wakes in the ..."

5. A Manual of the practice of medicine by George Roe Lockwood (1901)
"Acute dyspeptic diar- rhoea; 2. Acute entero-colitis; 3. Cholera infantum. ... Acute dyspeptic diarrhoea, which is caused by the irritation of ..."

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