water brash
English
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[edit]water brash (uncountable) (slightly dated)
- 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).
- Synonyms: pyrosis (obsolete), water qualm (dated)
- 1841 April, Thomas West, M.D., A Treatise on Pyrosis Idiopathica Or Water Brash[1], London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →PMID, archived from the original on 2015-05-26, page 1:
- 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.
- 1849, Frederick Hollick, M.D., The Matron's Manual Of Midwifery[2], New York: T. W. Strong:
- 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 […]
- 1986 June, James F. Helm, M.D., “Esophageal Acid Clearance”, in Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology[3], volume 8, Supplement 1, New York: Raven Press, Inc., , →PMID, page 5:
- Hypersalivation with heartburn, commonly referred to as waterbrash, may be a protective response to gastroesophageal reflux.
- “water brash” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th revised edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN; reproduced on TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024, retrieved 25 October 2024: “Regurgitation of watery acid from the stomach.”.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:water brash.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (Scotland) Heartburn.
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Hypersalivation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
