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  • noun Alternative form of heartburn.

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Examples

  • The worst of it was that the beer caused me severe heart-burn; but despite the discomfort I soon finished off the case.

    Chapter 34 2010

  • Eat tons of salsa without getting heart-burn/acid reflux.

    dear clusterflock | clusterflock 2009

  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last year urged doctors to avoid prescribing drugs such as Nexium and Prilosec together with Plavix after research suggested the class of heart-burn medicine — known as proton-pump inhibitors — blunted the effects of the blood thinner.

    Worries About Using Plavix With Heartburn Pills May Be Overblown Ron Winslow 2010

  • The document also said other types of heart-burn drugs such as Zantac that fall into a class of drugs known as H2 blockers aren ' t as effective at preventing GI bleeding.

    Use of Stomach Drugs Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2010

  • And do we need powerful, acid-blocking drugs to prevent heart-burn a condition that has recently been renamed GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux?

    The UltraMind Solution M.D. Mark Hyman 2009

  • Eat tons of salsa without getting heart-burn/acid reflux.

    dear clusterflock | clusterflock 2009

  • It is a relatively stable low risk career choice not thinking about the heart-burn caused by the shenanigans that go on in academia here - that's another post.

    A kind of risk analysis science cog 2008

  • Also on the Taiwan wish-list agenda is, or are, whether the US will sell F-16's, an obvious heart-burn issue in Cross-Strait relations, if only as an offset to China's continued missile build-up on the coast.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Michael Turton 2008

  • It is a relatively stable low risk career choice not thinking about the heart-burn caused by the shenanigans that go on in academia here - that's another post.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Yttrai 2008

  • In fact, what usually happens is that by the time I've flipped through all the menus once, eliminated the greek place for its skimpy use of feta, the thai place for consistently giving me heart-burn, and the pizza place across the street because, frankly, we just had it 2 nights ago, and narrowed it down to just 27 places that all sound equally appealing.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Jay 2007

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