What does the word Saburra mean?
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Foulness of stomach.
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This word signifies, by derivation, 'coarse sand, or ballast.' In its common acceptation, it means foulness of the stomach, as it is sometimes called ;-vitiated matters supposed to be retained and accumulated in the stomach-the result of imperfect digestion-and which have been sometimes considered as a morbid product of the mucous secretion of that organ, or of the biliary secretion; at others, as a residuum from alimentary substances badly digested. The Saburral state, Colluvies gastrica, Cruditates ventriculi, Gastrismus, ( F.) Embarras gastrique, etat saburral, is an accumulation of saburrae in the stomach, ( F.) Sabures gastrique, which the Humourists considered to be the cause of a number of diseases.
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