Digestive Rumination
- In animals, rumination is a part of normal digestion, in which the animal (known as a ruminant) brings up swallowed food (usually grass or hay), chews it, and swallows it. This aids the animal by allowing it to eat quickly and chew later while it is resting.
- In humans, rumination syndrome is a generally involuntary eating disorder characterized by the regurgitation of recently ingested food without retching
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