Sign or Symptom
vomiting
vom·it·ing
Subclass of:
Signs and Symptoms, Digestive
Definitions related to vomiting:
  • (vomit) To eject some or all of the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (emesis) Forcible expulsion of stomach contents through the mouth.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Expulsion of the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
    NICHD Pediatric Terminology
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Forceful ejection of the contents of the stomach through the mouth by means of a series of involuntary spasmic contractions.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2025
  • The forcible expulsion of the contents of the STOMACH through the MOUTH.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • A disorder characterized by the reflexive act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
    Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events
    U.S. National Institutes of Health, 2021
  • Vomiting, the forcible ejection of stomach contents from the mouth. Like nausea, vomiting may have a wide range of causes, including motion sickness, the use of certain drugs, intestinal obstruction, disease or disorder of the inner ear, injury to the head, and appendicitis. It may even occur...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2025
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