Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The abnormal habit or act of raising the food from the stomach to the mouth, and remasticating it; rumination in the human species. It occurs in healthy persons, but is more frequent in association with mental defect or disease.
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- noun medicine
rumination syndrome
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Examples
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Hammond defined merycism as the functions of remastication and rumination in the human subject.
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Fabricius d'Aquapendente personally knew a victim of rumination, or, as it is generally called, merycism.
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Hammond reported a case of a young man who was the subject of merycism, and whose mental condition was also impaired.
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Whether the cure of the merycism in this case was directly due to the operations on the cranium, or the result of the mental improvement, is
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In a recent discussion before the American Neurological Association Hammond defined merycism as the functions of remastication and rumination in the human subject.
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Whether the cure of the merycism in this case was directly due to the operations on the cranium, or the result of the mental improvement, is a question for discussion.
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This has been called ` ` esophagismus, '' and is apparently closely allied to this neurosis, which some have called ` ` merycism. ''
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Hammond added that, when acquired, merycism was almost invariably the result of over-eating and loading the esophagus, or the result of fast eating.
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Fabricius d'Aquapendente personally knew a victim of rumination, or, as it is generally called, merycism.
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This has been called "esophagismus," and is apparently closely allied to this neurosis, which some have called "merycism."
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