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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as pyrosis.

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Examples

  • The most intense gastric irritability now appeared in the form of an aggravation of the tympanic tightness, corrosive acid ructations, heart-burn, water-brash, and a peculiar sensation, as painful as it is indescribable, of _self-consciousness_ in the whole upper part of the digestive canal.

    The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

  • Sometimes the action of the muscles is reversed, and then we get a gush of acid, or bitter, half-digested food up into the mouth, which we call "heart-burn" or "water-brash."

    A Handbook of Health Woods Hutchinson 1896

  • Aristotle mentions the diseases of swine, so it will not be amiss to record that in the country swine are supposed to suffer from water-brash, and to relieve themselves by eating dry earth, for which purpose those that run loose are continually tearing up the ground.

    Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867

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