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Webster 1913 Edition

Indigestion

Inˊdi-ges′tion

(?; 106)
,
Noun.
[L.
indigestio
: cf. F.
indigestion
. See
In-
not, and
Digest
.]
Discomfort due to a lack of proper digestive action; a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion.

Webster 1828 Edition

Indigestion

INDIGES'TION

,
Noun.
[in and digestion.] Want of due coction in the stomach; a failure of that change in food which prepares it for nutriment; crudity.
As a disease, dyspepsy; that state of the stomach, in which it is incapable of performing its natural healthy functions.

Definition 2024

indigestion

indigestion

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English

Noun

indigestion ‎(usually uncountable, plural indigestions)

  1. A common medical condition most often caused by eating too quickly.

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Etymology

Borrowing from Old French indigestion, from Late Latin indigestio.

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