Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, the eructation of watery fluid, usually insipid, but sometimes acrid, attended with more or less burning pain in the epigastrium. It is commonly called
water-brash .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) See Water brash, under
brash .
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- noun medicine A
burning sensation in thechest due toreflux ofstomach contents in theesophagus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a painful burning sensation in the chest caused by gastroesophageal reflux (backflow from the stomach irritating the esophagus); symptomatic of an ulcer or a diaphragmatic hernia or other disorder
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Zubair was a wreck, a ball of frayed nerves with a stomach full of bubbling acid that had resulted in a scorching pyrosis.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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Zubair was a wreck, a ball of frayed nerves with a stomach full of bubbling acid that had resulted in a scorching pyrosis.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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Zubair was a wreck, a ball of frayed nerves with a stomach full of bubbling acid that had resulted in a scorching pyrosis.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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Zubair was a wreck, a ball of frayed nerves with a stomach full of bubbling acid that had resulted in a scorching pyrosis.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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Often what people mean by “indigestion” or “acid indigestion” is pyrosis, also commonly called heartburn.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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OTHER NAMES: Dyspepsia, indigestion, upset stomach; heartburn, pyrosis; gastritis; gastoenteritis; peptic ulcers.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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The burning sensation of pyrosis usually comes from the ejection of gastric juice upward into the esophagus.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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The dinner, from the removal of the _potage_ to the salad, bristled with truffles, and the banker's stomach, aged forty-seven years, experienced the burning and biting of pyrosis.
The Lost Child 1894 Fran��ois Edouard Joachim Copp��e
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It is sometimes found, in old cases, that there is no sensible acidity of stomach; but a _pyrosis_ -- a burning sensation in the stomach, or a little above, in what is usually termed "the pit of the stomach."
A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark
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In Concan the sweetened decoction of the plant with a little cumin seed is given for dyspepsia with pyrosis.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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