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Definition of Emesis
1. Noun. The reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
Generic synonyms: Ejection, Expulsion, Forcing Out, Projection, Inborn Reflex, Innate Reflex, Instinctive Reflex, Physiological Reaction, Reflex, Reflex Action, Reflex Response, Unconditioned Reflex
Specialized synonyms: Rumination, Haematemesis, Hematemesis, Hyperemesis
Derivative terms: Disgorge, Puke, Regurgitate, Vomit, Vomit
Definition of Emesis
1. n. A vomiting.
Definition of Emesis
1. Noun. (medicine) The act or process of vomiting or having vomited. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Emesis
1. the act of vomiting [n EMESES]
Medical Definition of Emesis
1. Vomiting, an act of vomiting. Also used as a word termination, as in haematemesis. Origin: Gr. Emein = to vomit This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emesis
Literary usage of Emesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"These may precede or follow the emesis, and are especially liable to occur in
the rare cases in which ttie emesis fails; ..."
2. Clinical Hematology: A Practical Guide to the Examination of the Blood with by John C. DaCosta (1901)
"... a very marked anemia, while protracted emesis tends to concentrate the blood,
thus masking its real condition. The several degenerative changes ..."
3. A Manual of the practice of medicine by Arthur Albert Stevens (1915)
"THE VOMIT Watery or mucous vomit is noted in chronic gastritis, in certain forms
of nervous dyspepsia, in cerebral disease, and after persistent emesis, ..."
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