What's the difference between belch and eructation?

Belch


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.
  • (v. i.) To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent.
  • (v. i.) To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.
  • (v. i.) To issue with spasmodic force or noise.
  • (n.) The act of belching; also, that which is belched; an eructation.
  • (n.) Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bus belching smoke in Bogotá Pretty dirty.
  • (2) After this operation symptoms such as dysphagia, inability to belch and vomit, and gas bloating are frequently reported in the literature.
  • (3) It describes the advantages of maternal milk by attending the basic principles that should govern the children's feeding, the importance of free scheme breast-feeding to emotional development, as well as ventral and right side-lying position and belching to the prevention of accidents.
  • (4) Air pollution was not the most immediate of problems but the canopy of smoke that belched from industrial and domestic chimneys began to attract attention.
  • (5) The rapid acidification is caused by the massive amounts of carbon dioxide belched from chimneys and exhausts that dissolve in the ocean.
  • (6) Good results included the absence of reflux symptoms, pleasant swallowing, the preservation of a normal capacity for belching and vomiting, minimal flatulence, and a comfortable incision.
  • (7) The vehicle had started belching white smoke and making "popping noises".
  • (8) As the volcano continued to belch smoke above the town, people dusted off the ashes and rebuilt the North Kivu capital.
  • (9) Both controlled release metoclopramide and high and low dose domperidone significantly reduced symptoms of belching, flatulence, distension, heartburn, regurgitation, reflux, nausea and vomiting compared to baseline.
  • (10) We investigated the occurrence of new constipation, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, visible blood in stool, abdominal pain, black stools, belching, and flatus in 324 outpatients following upper or lower gastrointestinal tract barium procedures.
  • (11) The diagnosis of myocardial infarction by the nature of the resultant pain or discomfort was unreliable in contrast to the associated symptoms sweating, nausea, belching and vomiting.
  • (12) It takes away the authenticity.” Mau Mau was subject to one of the most high-profile acts of Olympic censorship, when his legal street painting of a zombie Ronald McDonald, clad in the logos of the Olympic sponsors and running with a Coke-branded torch belching clouds of black smoke, was hastily painted over by Ealing council .
  • (13) Subjective ratings of the severity of abdominal cramping, belching, flatulence, and diarrhea were lower during the first eight hours after challenge in lactase-treated subjects; ratings for bloating were lower during the next eight hours.
  • (14) Belching and passage of flatus were the most frequently reported symptoms after barium enema, both single- and double-contrast.
  • (15) Twelve have now been built, their slender white poles and delicate blades dwarfed by the massive cooling towers of Drax power station belching clouds of steam into the Yorkshire sky – old and new energy in striking juxtaposition.
  • (16) The appropriately titled Elektrownia Belchatow – a massive coal-fired power station – belched out 30,862,792 tonnes of CO 2 last year and by 2010 the whole generating facility will have grown by 20%.
  • (17) The time and pressure profiles of transient lower esophageal sphincter relaxations induced by gastric insufflation were similar to those relaxations seen with spontaneous postprandial gastroesophageal reflux and belching in dogs.
  • (18) Compared with normal subjects, achalasia patients were significantly less likely to have an esophageal belch for all volumes tested and were more likely to have an increase rather than a decrease in upper esophageal sphincter pressure in response to air injection.
  • (19) Reflux episodes were usually associated with belching.
  • (20) Eruptions belch from impacts of Grad rockets and tank shells across swaths of this dun-coloured city.

Eructation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch.
  • (n.) A violent belching out or emitting, as of gaseous or other matter from the crater of a volcano, geyser, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In general, retrosternal and also epigastric and pharyngeal burning or pain are the leading symptoms, but in mild disease eructation may become the major complaint.
  • (2) Although the transected tracheal technique for the determination of the volume of eructated gas was developed with cattle, the pathway of eructated gas was confirmed with sheep.
  • (3) When the mixture was introduced directly into the small intestine according to the authors' schedule, no dyspeptic symptoms (eructation, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, meteorism, diarrhea) were recorded, dipsosis and the sense of starvation disappeared, the body weight increased, biochemical parameters returned to normal, the time of the preoperational preparation was significantly reduced, the post-operational complications were better managed.
  • (4) When swallowing occurred during eructation it appeared to continue normally, interrupting the train of oesophageal reactions in eructation.
  • (5) Treatment results were checked endoscopically and on the basis of changes in subjective symptoms (heartburn, epigastric pain, nausea, vomiting, postprandial sense of fullness, eructations, regurgitation, all of which were quantified on an analogic scale from 0 = absent to 3 = intense).
  • (6) Absorption across the ruminal epithelium during rest increased Mco2 by 3%, whereas absorption and eructation together increased Mco2 by 15%.
  • (7) The most frequent symptoms were abdominal pain, weight loss, diarrhea, and vomiting followed by anemia, foul eructations, and fecal vomiting.
  • (8) The time between the first doses of medication and the attainment of good or excellent relief was also significantly shorter (P less than 0.01) in the bismuth subsalicylate-treated subjects for the individual symptoms of nausea, sense of fullness, heartburn and eructation.
  • (9) The odor of hydrogen sulfide in eructated rumen gas was associated with the onset of PEM.
  • (10) After 3 years, the proportion of reflux-free patients still was 94%; 12% suffered from mild dysphagia and 6% had problems with eructation.
  • (11) The volume of eructated gas (for 30-minute periods) decreased from 10.7 L to 5.5 L at the end of the 60-minute infusion period.
  • (12) Subjects who received bismuth subsalicylate had significantly superior relief (P less than 0.01) of the individual symptoms of nausea, sense of fullness, heartburn, eructation, stomach pain and flatulence, as well as superior overall relief (P less than 0.02).
  • (13) CO2 of fermentation origin is added to the expired gas by both eructation and absorption and has a significant effect on R in the resting animal, but no effect on R during exercise.
  • (14) A review of 46 of the 63 reported cases of gastric and duodenal fistulization indicated that patients with gastric fistulas commonly present with vomiting (39%), and with histories of feculent eructations or frank feculent vomiting (44%), but that patients with duodenal fistulas rarely present with vomiting (3.6%), and never have feculent vomiting or eructations.
  • (15) Patients with functional bowel disease commonly complain of abdominal pain, bloating, and excessive flatulence and eructation.
  • (16) Alimentary tract obstruction with an agent blocking, phagoreceptors block (eructation type of infection), inhibition of saliva ferments activity (saliva type of transmission) result in the prolongation of the feeding period and rise of agent hit probability.
  • (17) The diagnosis is based on a history of eructation, heart burn, flatulence and diarrhea, dietary habits, physical examination, laboratory analysis and apparative diagnostic measures.
  • (18) 34.2 percent of the patients had, instead of pains, a feeling of heaviness in the epigastric area, heartburn and eructation depending on the antral gastritis severity.
  • (19) Gas eructation function of the gastroesophageal sphincter (GES) was investigated in 6 conscious dogs before and after a sleeve was placed around the GES and gastric cardia and during IV infusion of a beta-adrenergic amine (epinephrine).
  • (20) We conclude that, despite the large volume of eructated gases, the eructation process is not significantly different in sheep compared to other animals.

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