Alka-Seltzer{™}

Alka-Seltzer{™}
a medicine which is mixed with water to make a fizzy drink (= one containing many bubbles) that people take when they have indigestion (= stomach pain caused by difficulty in digesting food or drink):

He took an Alka-Seltzer and went back to bed.

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