different between emesis vs vomiting

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (émesis), from ???? (emé?, “vomit”). Compare ?????? (émetos, “vomit”, noun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?s?s/
• Hyphenation: em?e?sis

Noun

emesis (countable and uncountable, plural emeses)

1. (pathology) The act or process of vomiting.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• missee

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (émesis), from ???? (emé?, “vomit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?mesis/, [e?me.sis]

Noun

emesis f (plural emesis)

1. (medicine) emesis, vomit

   Synonym: vómito

Further reading

“emesis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Verb

vomiting

1. present participle of vomit

Noun

vomiting (countable and uncountable, plural vomitings)

1. The act of one who vomits, or the matter that is vomited.
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.

   • 1856, William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone, The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences

     It is certainly probable that these black vomitings and stools may be absent, and in that case it would be extremely difficult to diagnose between simple ulcer of the stomach and non-ulcerative gastritis.

Synonyms

• purging, throwing up; see also Thesaurus:vomit

Translations

Anagrams

• motiving