dyspepsia
noun/dɪsˈpepsiə/
/dɪsˈpepʃə/
[uncountable] (medical)- pain caused by difficulty in digesting food synonym indigestionTopics Health problemsc2Word Originearly 18th cent.: via Latin from Greek duspepsia, from duspeptos ‘difficult to digest’.
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