emesis
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- hyperemesis noun
Etymology
Origin of emesis
1870–75; < New Latin < Greek émesis a vomiting, equivalent to eme- (stem of emeîn to vomit) + -sis -sis
Example Sentences
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The process of emesis is regulated by the medulla.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Woman with a migraine holding a towel over her eyes and a crumpled blue emesis bag in her right hand, for when she vomits.
From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2019
“Give a woman a quiet room to herself without an emesis basin.”
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2019
Not quite a decade later—and still four years before Schjeldahl would invent the plastic-lined emesis bag—an article in Flying magazine suggested that 0.2 percent of passengers were getting air-sick on commercial flights.
From Slate • Dec. 21, 2014
Another counted it "an allusion to the emesis of Jonah by the whale."
From Study of the King James Bible by McAfee, Cleland Boyd
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