Heartburn

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Heartburn \Heart"burn`\ (-b[^u]rn`), n. (Med.)
     An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended
     with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but
     is often a symptom of other complaints.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  heartburn
       n : a painful burning sensation in the chest caused by
           gastroesophageal reflux (backflow from the stomach
           irritating the esophagus); symptomatic of an ulcer or a
           diaphragmatic hernia or other disorder [syn: {pyrosis}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "heartburn":
     ache, aching, angina, backache, bellyache, cardialgia, cephalalgia,
     cholera morbus, colic, collywobbles, constipation, costiveness,
     diarrhea, dysentery, dyspepsia, earache, envy, flux, fret, gnawing,
     green-eyed jealousy, green-eyed monster, gripe, gripes, gut-ache,
     headache, heartburning, hemicrania, horn-madness, indigestion,
     irregularity, jalousie, jaundice, jaundiced eye, jealousness,
     jealousy, lientery, megrim, migraine, obstipation, odontalgia,
     otalgia, pyrosis, sick headache, splitting headache, stomachache,
     throbbing pain, toothache, trots