pyrosis
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pyrosis
Example Sentences
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In Concan the sweetened decoction of the plant with a little cumin seed is given for dyspepsia with pyrosis.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
Dogs are afflicted with a disease of the stomach, which is very like to "water-brash," "pyrosis," or "cardialgia," in the human being.
From The Dog by Dinks
No, indeed, my Lady; my son Bob—Mr. Hickman O'Reilly, I mean—God forgive me, I'm sure they take trouble enough to teach me that name—he's got a kind of a water-brash, what we call a pyrosis.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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.
From The Lost Child by Matthewman, J.
In the more typical cases there are no signs of dyspepsia whatever, no fulness nor excessive redness of the tongue, no nausea, regurgitation of food, nor pyrosis.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
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