dyspepsia
- noun
- /dɪsˈpɛpʃə/
- Specialized
- After eating too much at dinner, she suffered from dyspepsia, complaining of stomach discomfort and bloating.
- dyspepsia and nausea
- dyspepsia and abdominal pain
- ulcer dyspepsia
Examples
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The most common side effect of aspirin is dyspepsia, especially after long-term use.
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The role of H. pylori in non-ulcer dyspepsia remains unclear.
Academic text (2005) -
Good cooking always gives her dyspepsia.
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The trip could have been done more quickly, but his chronic dyspepsia required a detour.
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On November 25, she explained, "For the last two or three days, I have been disordered by dyspepsia and unfitted for doing anything well."
Academic text (2016) -
She's got dyspepsia.
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He has chronic dyspepsia.
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Non-ulcer dyspepsia presents with upper GI pain with belching, bloating, and early satiety.
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The more common side effects include dyspepsia, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, and bleeding (including gastrointestinal and intracerebral bleeding).
Academic text (2012) -
The commonest side effects are gastrointestinal: nausea, vomiting, dyspepsia, abdominal pain, changed bowel action, and tend to be dose-related.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
Stomach pain after eating, often with heartburn or feeling sick
A mild pain or feeling of sickness in the stomach
A mild stomach pain that often makes you feel sick or causes heartburn
A pain or uncomfortable feeling in the stomach area
A pain in the stomach area
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
dyspepsia = pepsia (opaque) = dys + pepsia
Formed from medical combining forms 'dys-' (bad) + 'pepsia' (digestion), which are not productive or familiar to average learners, so the meaning 'indigestion' is not easily derived.
Etymology
Dyspepsia comes from two Greek parts: dys- meaning 'bad' and pepsia meaning 'digestion', like the word digest. So dyspepsia literally means 'bad digestion', which is why it describes stomach discomfort, heartburn, or nausea after eating.