vomiting
vomit
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈvɒm.ɪt/ us /ˈvɑː.mɪt/
the contents of your stomach that have come up through your mouth:
There was a pile of vomit on the floor.
The smell of vomit made me want to be sick.
She woke up lying in her own vomit.
He was cleaning some cat vomit off the kitchen floor.
Baby vomit doesn't smell too bad because it's just milk.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Vomiting & feelings of sickness
airsickness
bring
bring someone up
carsick
carsickness
chunder
dry heave
morning sickness
nausea
nauseatingly
puke
retch
seasickness
sick something up
sick to your stomachidiom
sick-making
sickeningly
spew
travel sickness
woozy

vomit | American Dictionary

vomit
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈvɑm·ɪt/
to empty the contents of the stomach through the mouth, usually in explosive bursts

vomiting

noun[ U ]us/ˈvɑm·ɪ·t̬ɪŋ/
It causes a range of ailments, including headache and vomiting.
vomit
noun[ U ]
us/ˈvɑm·ət/
food or other matter that has come up from the stomach through the mouth

Examples of vomit

vomit
Complications and side effects involve haematological toxicity, diarrhoea, vomiting and infections.
Symptoms are relatively non-specific, namely nausea, acute onset of profuse and watery diarrhoea, lack of appetite, vomiting, weight loss, abdominal pain and flu-like symptoms.
There was a trend of decreasing frequency of vomiting with increasing age.
Transmission via environmental contamination may also account for some of the increased risk following exposure to vomiting episodes.
The available pharmacological options are based on the pathogenesis of vomiting.
Characteristic clinical symptoms included abdominal pain often accompanied by anorexia, vomiting and hepatosplenomegaly.
Outbreaks of all three have similar incubation periods, and cases generally experience more fever than vomiting.
Clinical presentation included diarrhoea (100 %), abdominal pain (92 %), fever (92 %), nausea (76 %) and vomiting (56 %).
On this occasion he reached the emergency fire escape and vomited on the floor.
The majority of other reported cases had not been present on the evening of the vomiting incident.
Causes of re-hospitalization were vomiting, headache and backache.
We modified the indication to include the presence of at least one of the following symptoms: stomach pains, nausea, vomiting, or heartburn.
Symptoms included diarrhoea, fever, stomach cramps and vomiting in 88, 60, 54 and 21 % of cases identified.
Thirteen hotel food handlers became ill in the 2-week period with vomiting or diarrhoea.
The typical features of raised intracranial pressure are the same in the elderly as in all age groups; morning headache, vomiting and gradual visual loss.
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