Crossword clues for vomiting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vomiting \Vom"it*ing\, n. The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.
Vomit \Vom"it\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vomited; p. pr. & vb. n. Vomiting.] [Cf. L. vomere, vomitum, and v. freq. vomitare. See Vomit, n.] To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.
Wiktionary
n. The action of the verb vomit vb. (present participle of vomit English)
WordNet
n. the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth [syn: vomit, emesis, regurgitation, disgorgement, puking]
Wikipedia
Vomiting, also known as emesis and throwing up, among other terms, is the involuntary, forceful expulsion of the contents of one's stomach through the mouth and sometimes the nose.
Vomiting can be caused by a wide variety of conditions; it may present as a specific response to ailments like gastritis or poisoning, or as a non-specific sequela of disorders ranging from brain tumors and elevated intracranial pressure to overexposure to ionizing radiation. The feeling that one is about to vomit is called nausea, which often precedes, but does not always lead to, vomiting. Antiemetics are sometimes necessary to suppress nausea and vomiting. In severe cases, where dehydration develops, intravenous fluid may be required.
Vomiting is different from regurgitation, although the two terms are often used interchangeably. Regurgitation is the return of undigested food back up the esophagus to the mouth, without the force and displeasure associated with vomiting. The causes of vomiting and regurgitation are generally different.
Usage examples of "vomiting".
Recently Joly described congenital hernia of the stomach in a man of thirty-seven, who died from collapse following lymphangitis, persistent vomiting, and diarrhea.
If he ate flour in any form or however combined, in the smallest quantity, in two minutes or less he would have painful itching over the whole body, accompanied by severe colic and tormina in the bowels, great sickness in the stomach, and continued vomiting, which he declared was ten times as distressing as the symptoms caused by the ingestion of tartar emetic.
Bartholinus, Salmuth, and a Reyes speak of women vomiting remnants of fetuses.
Weir Mitchell called attention to the interesting subject of sympathetic vomiting in the husband in his lectures on nervous maladies some years ago.
On returning home, having walked five hours, she was seized with an attack of vomiting and fainted.
The hairs would be detached in vomiting but would grow again, and when he was last seen they were one inch long.
Bonet speaks of a case of vomiting which was caused by a double stomach.
Carlisle mentions a case in which there was vomiting of a fluid containing urea and having the sensible properties of urine.
A physician gave her astringents, which partly suppressed the vomiting, but the hemorrhage changed to the skin, and every day she sweated blood from the chest, back of the thighs, feet, and the extremities of the fingers.
Two months later the skin-hemorrhages ceased and the boy died, vomiting blood and with bloody stools.
Odorous substances have occasioned syncope, stupor, nausea, vomiting, and sometimes death.
Paullini cites an instance of vomiting caused by music, and Marcellus Donatus mentions swooning from the same cause.
Lusitanus speaks of vomiting and diarrhea occurring each time a certain Spaniard ate meat.
Tissot observed vomiting in one of his friends after the ingestion of the slightest amount of sugar.
Roose has seen vomiting produced in a woman by the slightest dose of distilled water of linden.