apepsy

English

Noun

apepsy (uncountable)

  1. (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

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  • apepsy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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