water brash
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.95 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
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Meaning
noun
Excessive salivation coupled with varying degrees of regurgitation into the esophagus, resulting in upper gastrointestinal symptoms such as heartburn (as the regurgitated stomach contents are typically acidic).
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Pyrosis is, in a minor degree, a very common attendant on various forms of dyspepsia; but in some instances it is itself so urgent and distressing, presenting itself as so prominent a feature of gastric malady, that it throws most of the other well-known symptoms into the shade, so as to claim the painful attention of the sufferer and the special observation of the practitioner. Hence it has acquired a distinct place in Nosology; and hence it is, that in common parlance it is distinguished by the term water-brash or water-qualm."
- "PYROSIS. This disease is more frequently called water brash and sometimes heart burn. It is characterized by the raising of a hot acrid fluid into the throat, causing a sensation of burning from the stomach upward, even to the mouth. It is a very frequent attendant upon many forms of dyspepsia[…]"
- "Hypersalivation with heartburn, commonly referred to as waterbrash, may be a protective response to gastroesophageal reflux."
- "“water brash”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2026, sourced from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN, retrieved 25 Oct 2024: “Regurgitation of watery acid from the stomach.”"
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Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.