undigestion
English
Etymology
From un- + digestion.
Noun
undigestion (uncountable)
- 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.
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See also
- indigestion