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Definition of Aerophagia
1. Noun. Swallowing air (usually followed by belching and discomfort and flatulence).
Definition of Aerophagia
1. Noun. aerophagy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Aerophagia
1. The word phage in Greek means to eat. Aerophagia is literally to eat air. Aerophagia is a common cause of gas in the stomach. Everyone swallows small amounts of air when eating or drinking. However, rapid eating or drinking, chewing gum, smoking, or ill-fitting dentures may cause a significant increase in swallowed air. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aerophagia
Literary usage of Aerophagia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rational treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis by Charles Sabourin (1921)
"aerophagia in Tuberculosis.—Apart from the above patients, another class of cases
is met with likewise neurotic, viz., the cases with aerophagia, ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"... stomach it keeps the acid away from the cardiac region. This lessens the tonic
contraction of the sphincter and so favors the escape of gas. aerophagia ..."
3. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1907)
"aerophagia is entirely independent of the state of gastric function, ... In the
latter the aerophagia may depend (1) upon a purely neurotic basis, ..."
4. The Psychoneuroses and Their Treatment by Psychotherapy by E. Gauckler (1915)
"We refer to aerophagia or air-swallowing. This difficulty is developed in proportion
to the number of movements in swallowing, each movement bringing with ..."
5. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"In this way a habit of aerophagia is developed. It is evident, therefore, that
while attacks of aerophagia are in themselves of a functional character, ..."
6. American Medicine (1913)
"In the second variety of flatulence, that fe to aerophagia, the etiological
characters e> quite ... A good w '• avoiding aerophagia outside of meals ..."
7. Diseases of the stomach and upper alimentary tract by Anthony Bassler (1922)
"In aerophagia, however, the belching is esophageal and not gastric in ...
In aerophagia the air is first gulped down and then expelled generally in loud ..."
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