indigestion
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Indigestion \In`di*ges"tion\ (?; 106), n. [L. indigestio: cf. F.
indigestion. See {In-} not, and {Digest}.]
Discomfort due to a lack of proper digestive action; a
failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in
the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult
digestion.
[1913 Webster]
from
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
INDIGESTION, n. A disease which the patient and his friends
frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the
salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the western wild put
it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: "Plenty well, no
pray; big bellyache, heap God."
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
83 Moby Thesaurus words for "indigestion":
abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation,
asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia,
cachexy, cardialgia, chill, chills, cholera morbus, colic,
constipation, convulsion, costiveness, coughing, cyanosis,
diarrhea, dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema,
emaciation, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flux, gripe,
gripes, growth, heartburn, hemorrhage, high blood pressure,
hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, inflammation,
insomnia, irregularity, itching, jaundice, labored breathing,
lientery, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, nasal discharge,
nausea, necrosis, obstipation, pain, paralysis, pruritus, pyrosis,
rash, rheum, sclerosis, seizure, shock, skin eruption, sneezing,
sore, spasm, tabes, tachycardia, trots, tumor, upset stomach,
vertigo, vomiting, wasting
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