Dyspepsia
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DYSPEPSIA, med. jur., contracts. A state of the stomach in which its
functions are disturbed, without the presence of other diseases; or when, if
other diseases are present, they are of minor importance. Dunglison's Med.
Dict. h.t.
2. Dyspepsia is not, in general, considered as a disease which tends to
shorten life, so as to make a life uninsurable; unless the complaint has
become organic dyspepsia, or was of such a degree at the time of the
insurance, as, by its excess, to tend to shorten life. 4 Taunt. 763.