Letter R

Rumination

<B>1.</B> Regurgitating food after a meal and then swallowing and digesting some of it.

Cattle and other ruminant animals have a four-chambered stomach for the rumination of food and so can chew their cud.

Some people, particularly infants, engage in something similar by regurgitating food after a meal and then swallowing and digesting some of it.

<B>2.</B> Obsessive rumination is the preoccupation with certain thoughts

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