undigestion

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From un- +‎ digestion.

Noun[edit]

undigestion (uncountable)

  1. Lack of digestion, or poor digestion.
    • 1905, Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey, volume 2, page 271:
      The presence of food in any state of digestion or undigestion in the ileum must be a source of irritation and danger.
    • 2000, Trevor Stone, L. Gail Darlington, Pills, Potions and Poisons : How Drugs Work:
      A new word was introduced recently into English — undigestion. This simply refers to a lack of movement of food in the stomach and small intestine and responds to treatment with domperidone.
    • 2010, Robert Lewis Taylor, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters:
      When we arrived at one of those soda ponds, being a little backwash slough with a white deposit over the top, I collected a pocketful of dust that goes by the western name of “saleratus,” which is practically the identical same thing as baking soda, and really first-rate for undigestion.

See also[edit]

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=undigestion&oldid=75724151"