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Emesis

noun
1.
The reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth.  Synonyms: disgorgement, puking, regurgitation, vomit, vomiting.



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"Emesis" Quotes from Famous Books



... The Persians have a most unpleasant form of treating men when dead-drunk with wine or spirits. They hang them up by the heels, as we used to do with the drowned, and stuff their mouths with human ordure which is sure to produce emesis. ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton


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