Rumination

(ru-min-a' '-shun). I. Merycism us; a remarkable and rare condition in which patients regurgitate and chew the cud, like ruminants. It occurs in neurasthenic or hyste persons, epileptics, and idiots. It may be hereditary. Certain persons have the power of returning food from the stomach to the mouth at will. 2. In biolog; return of ingesta the cud to the mouth from the paunch, and its rem as tic at i on. Among certain lower animals this function is normal. The end of rump.., rumpe, Rump the buttocks, or nates. R.-bone, the sacrum.