heartburn

Proton pump inhibitors (PPI質子幫浦抑制劑) are for severe heartburn.

-----買空賣空

真巧，老古今天在「蘋果」也談到heartburn。

*****古德明專攔*

胃灼熱英文是heartburn，直譯是「燒心」，但其實不是心臟病，而是消化不良徵候，胃酸升上食道，令胸部有灼熱感覺，口腔有苦味。Heartburn是個不可數名詞（uncountable noun），不可冠以a字，例如：(1) Such food is sure to give you heartburn（這樣的食物，一定會令你胃灼熱）。(2) He took a tablet to relieve his heartburn（他服了一片藥緩解胃灼熱）。

------hc

既然有人不謀而合

我只好交代我的出處

在姚克翻譯A. Miller之"推銷員之死"

Charley ...Couldn't sleep well. I had a heartburn.

(睡不穩 鬧胃氣)

...接下來還有一次用到heartburn......

注意

heartburn noun [U] 不可數-- 不過我的版本的確為 a heartburn

a painful burning feeling in the lower chest caused by the stomach not digesting food correctly

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

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