pyrosis

Example Sentences

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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

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 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

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

Anything of use in preventing or healing burns or pyrosis.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah