apepsy
English
Noun
apepsy (uncountable)
- (medicine, archaic) defective digestion; indigestion
- 1768, John Ball, The Modern Practice of Physic:
- The causes of an Anorexy , and Apepsy are the fame , that is , whatsoever hinders or diminishes the motions of the muscular coats of the stomach
Derived terms
References
- “apepsy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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