What is the regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally oberved as a morbid phenomenon in man called?
rumination — (Physiol.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally oberved as a morbid phenomenon in man. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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