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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The abnormal habit or act of raising the food from the stomach to the mouth, and remasticating it; rumination in the human species. It occurs in healthy persons, but is more frequent in association with mental defect or disease.
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“Hammond added that, when acquired, merycism was almost invariably the result of over-eating and loading the esophagus, or the result of fast eating.”
“This has been called ` ` esophagismus, '' and is apparently closely allied to this neurosis, which some have called ` ` merycism. '”
“Fabricius d'Aquapendente personally knew a victim of rumination, or, as it is generally called, merycism.”
“Whether the cure of the merycism in this case was directly due to the operations on the cranium, or the result of the mental improvement, is a question for discussion.”
“Hammond reported a case of a young man who was the subject of merycism, and whose mental condition was also impaired.”
“In a recent discussion before the American Neurological Association Hammond defined merycism as the functions of remastication and rumination in the human subject.”
“This has been called "esophagismus," and is apparently closely allied to this neurosis, which some have called "merycism.”
“Whether the cure of the merycism in this case was directly due to the operations on the cranium, or the result of the mental improvement, is”
“Hammond defined merycism as the functions of remastication and rumination in the human subject.”
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