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Definition: Heartburn |
HeartburnNoun1. A painful burning sensation in the chest caused by gastroesophageal reflux (backflow from the stomach irritating the esophagus); symptomatic of an ulcer or a diaphragmatic hernia or other disorder. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "heartburn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1911. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Substernal pain or burning sensation, usually associated with regurgitation of gastric juice into the esophagus. (references) |
Medicine | An uneasy burning sensation in the stomach. . . and. . . associated with the eructation of an acid fluid. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Heartburn."
Synonym: HeartburnSynonym: pyrosis (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
Physical Pain | Noun: pain; suffering, sufferance, suffrance; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering; dolour, ache; aching. Verb: smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris; hurt, cut; sore, soreness; discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia, earache, gout, ischiagra, lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia, otalgia, podagra, rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux, toothache, tormina, torticollis. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Heartburn |
| English words defined with "heartburn": bitter salts ♦ Cardiac passion, Cardialgy ♦ dyspepsia, Dyspepsy ♦ Epsom salts ♦ Heartburned ♦ indigestion ♦ stomach upset ♦ upset stomach. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "heartburn": Bernstein Test, Bismuth Subsalicylate ♦ cardialgia ♦ H2-Blockers ♦ Tips to control heartburn. (references) |
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Screenplays | I'm gettin' heartburn. Tony, do something terrible. (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Heartburn? It's that Miss Caswell. I don't see why she hasn't given Addison heartburn. (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Heartburn (1934) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Saturday night special : a major cause of heartburn.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | Other symptoms include cramping, bloating, and heartburn. (references) | |
Although most hiatal hernias cause no symptoms, some people experience heartburn. (references) | ||
Possible side effects of 5-ASA preparations include nausea, vomiting, heartburn, diarrhea, and headache. (references) | ||
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| "Heartburn" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.29% of the time. "Heartburn" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.29% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.14% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "heartburn": cause heartburn ♦ Tips to control heartburn. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
heartburn | 991 |
heartburn symptom | 80 |
heartburn and pregnancy | 60 |
cause of heartburn | 47 |
heartburn remedy | 38 |
heartburn relief | 28 |
home remedy for heartburn | 25 |
heartburn treatment | 20 |
heartburn medication | 19 |
heartburn during pregnancy | 17 |
chronic heartburn | 16 |
diet heartburn | 16 |
heartburn cure | 15 |
heartburn medicine | 12 |
heartburn indigestion | 11 |
heartburn in pregnancy | 10 |
severe heartburn | 10 |
natural remedy for heartburn | 9 |
food heartburn | 7 |
help for heartburn | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "heartburn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | urth (blight), thartirë e stomakut, djegësirë stomaku. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حرقة في المعدة (heartbreak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | киселини в стомаха (brash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pálení žáhy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | heartburn (pyrosis), halsbrand (pyrosis), pyrosis (pyrosis), gastralgi (cardialgia, gastralgia), cardialgi (cardialgia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zuur (acerbic, acetous, acid, acidic, bitter, brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sour, sullen, surly, tart, unkind, unpleasant), maagzuur (gastric acid, gastric juice), maagbrand. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | pirozo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | bróstsviði. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | حسدیاخصومت ورزیدن , سوزش معده , دردیاسوزش قلب . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | närästys (acid dyspepsia, pyrosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pyrosis, brûlures d'estomac. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sodbrennen (indigestion, pyrosis), Pyrosis (pyrosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καρδιαλγία,άλγος κατά την καρδιακή χώραν (cardialgia), καούρα, στομαχικός καύσος (pyrosis), στομαχικές καούρες (pyrosis), ξυνοστομαχία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | צרבת (burn, pyrosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyomorégés (pyrosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pirosi (pyrosis), bruciori gastrici (pyrosis), bruciore di stomaco, acidit gastrica (pyrosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 虫酸 , 胸焼け (sour stomach). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | むしず, むねやけ (sour stomach). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | daa cree. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | halsbrann. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eartburnhay pirose (pyrosis), inveja (envy, hearten, Jean), inconsolável (inconsonant, woebegone), desgosto (bitter, chagrin, discontent, disgust, displeasure, distaste, heartbreaking, ill, regret, scunner, sore, trouble), acidez gástrica (pyrosis), ódio (abhorrence, abomination, gall, gall bladder, grudge, hate, hatred, odium, rancor, rancour, spite). (various references) arsurã la stomac, arsurã (burn, scald, scoria). (various references) изжога (brash, epigastric burning, pyrosis). (various references) gorušica (heartburning, pyrosis). (various references) acedía. (various references) halsbränna (pyrosis, water brash). (various references) mide ekşimesi. (various references) ревнощі (emulation, heartburning, jealousy), заздрість (envy, grudge, heartburning, jealousy, yellows), печія (pyrosis). (various references) dw+r poeth. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "heartburn": heartburning, heartburnings, heartburns. (additional references) | |
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"Heartburn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Shearburn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "heartburn" (pronounced hÄ"rtber'n) |
| 3 | -b er' n | sunburn. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-h-n-r-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: burthen, haunter, unearth, urbaner, urethan, urethra. | |
-3 letters: anther, arbute, banter, barren, barret, barter, bather, bertha, breath, brunet, bunter, burner, burnet, butane, errant, hunter, hurter, nature, ranter, rather, return, rurban, thenar, turban, turner, unbear, urbane. | |
-4 letters: antre, barer, barre, bathe, beaut, berth, brant, brent, brunt, brute, buran, buret, burnt, earth, hater, haunt, haute, heart, neath, rater, rathe, rebar, rebut, rehab, reran, rerun, taber, tabun, tarre, terra, thane, truer, tubae, tuber, tuner, unbar, unhat, urare, urate, urban. | |
-5 letters: abet, abut, ante, aunt, baht, bane, bare, barn, bate, bath, bean, bear, beat, beau, bent, beta, beth, bhut, brae, bran, brat, bren, brut, buhr, bunt, bura, burn, burr, bute, earn, eath, etna, habu, haen, haet, hant, hare, hart, hate, haut, hear, heat, hent, herb, hern, hunt, hurt, nabe, near, neat, rant, rare, rate, rath, rear, rent, rhea, rube, ruer, rune, runt, ruth, tabu, tahr, tare, tarn, tear, tern, thae, than, then, thru, true, tuba, tube, tuna, tune, turn, unbe, urea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-h-n-r-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: heartburns. | |
+3 letters: heartburning. | |
+4 letters: heartburnings. | |
+5 letters: bremsstrahlung, turbomachinery. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 61 72 74 62 75 72 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .- .-. - -... ..- .-. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100010 01110101 01110010 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a r t b u r n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 0072 0074 0062 0075 0072 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427167848668878480 |
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