vomiting

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vomiting

  1. present participle and gerund of vomit

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vomiting (countable and uncountable, plural vomitings)

  1. (bacteriology) The act of one who vomits, or the matter that is vomited.
    • 1651, Jer Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. , 2nd edition, London: Francis Ashe , →OCLC:
      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.

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