emesis
Americannoun
noun
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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
“Give a woman a quiet room to herself without an emesis basin.”
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2019
Before the movie is over, that emesis won’t be the only salvo hurled by a woman in the direction of a man.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2016
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
There is recorded an instance of a woman who took about an ounce, and, emesis being produced three-quarters of an hour afterward by mustard, she finally recovered.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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