Definição e significado de rumination

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Rumination may refer to:

  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

  Mental rumination

• Mental rumination – contemplation or reflection, which may become persistent and recurrent worrying or brooding

  Other

• Ruminations – a popular email column and series of books written by comedian Aaron Karo

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