Definition of Emesis basin

1. Noun. A basin used by bedridden patients for vomiting.

Generic synonyms: Basin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Emesis Basin

emery
emery bag
emery bags
emery board
emery boards
emery cloth
emery disks
emery paper
emery rock
emery stone
emery wheel
emerying
emes
emeses
emesis
emesis basin (current term)
emetic
emetical
emetically
emetick
emetics
emetin
emetine
emetines
emetins
emetocathartic
emetogenic
emetogenicity
emetology

Literary usage of Emesis basin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Obstetrics for nurses by Joseph Bolivar De Lee (1922)
"The nurse should distract the patient's mind from herself and from the idea of vomiting; therefore the emesis basin should be hidden until actually required ..."

2. Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII by Edward J. Olszewski (2004)
"... had recently mistreated ambassadors of the French king. On the emesis basin on the ground (which has presumably served its purpose) is the inscription ..."

3. Municipal Sanitation in the United States by Charles Value Chapin (1900)
"... in attendance carrying the emesis basin to receive any vomits. The patient was placed in the ambulance and removed to the Reception Hospital, ..."

4. The Principles of Therapeutics by Oliver Thomas Osborne (1921)
"4. Long forceps and properly made gauze pledgets for swabbing out the mouth and throat. 5. An emesis basin. 6. Towels. 7. Two or three hypodermic syringes. ..."

5. Surgical Operations with Local Anesthesia by Arthur Emanuel Hertzler (1916)
"Again, he may be nauseated to such a degree that his time is so occupied with the emesis basin that the after-pain suffered is relegated to a secondary ..."

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