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vomitus en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wemh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *wémh₁ti Proto-Italic *wemō Latin vomō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin vomitusbor. English vomitus Borrowed from Latin vomitus.

Meanings

1. Vomit (the product of an emesis).
   • Every observant mother has learned the importance of noting the character of her baby's vomitus, the color of its stools, the evidence of inflation of its stomach, etc. 1905, Monthly Bulletin, California State Board of Health, page 70:
   • Or, in sorrow, he might have started drinking one night, become intoxicated, vomited, aspirated the vomitus into his lungs, and developed a lung abcess or aspiration pneumonia. 1991, Eric J Cassell, The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine, Oxford University Press, page 112:

Forms

Deriveds

coffee ground vomitus