What's the difference between emesis and vomit?

Emesis


Definition:

  • (n.) A vomiting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was concluded that metoclopramide and dexamethasone showed an excellent antiemetic effect on acute drug-induced emesis, as well as on delayed emesis, induced by cisplatin.
  • (2) The neuroleptic agents haloperidol, fluphenazine, domperidone, sulpiride and tiapride also antagonized emesis induced by cisplatin but only a proportion of the animals were completely protected and diazepam and prednisolone only reduced the intensity of the response.
  • (3) Despite excellent control of acute-stage emesis, some patients are still bothered by delayed emesis occurring more than 24 hours after cisplatin administration.
  • (4) Nine patients suffered emesis in spite of prophylactic therapy and were classified as grade 3.
  • (5) The efficacy of ipecac syrup in the induction of emesis and safety of its administration was studied in 105 poison-exposed infants 6 through 11 months of age (study subjects) and compared prospectively with 302 poison-exposed infants and children 12 through 35 months of age who served as age controls.
  • (6) We have compared the ability of drugs to induce chewing and retching or emesis in squirrel monkeys; such studies are not possible in rodents, which do not vomit.
  • (7) One of these agents, batanopride, produced no severe toxicity at doses that prevented emesis due to chemotherapy in early Phase I trials.
  • (8) One hundred ten pediatric patients, ages 8 months to 14 yr, admitted for outpatient strabismus surgery were enrolled in a randomized, double-blinded study to compare droperidol and metoclopramide to placebo for the prevention of postoperative emesis.
  • (9) The aftereffects of home-induced emesis with ipecac syrup were determined by telephone interviews of callers to a poison center.
  • (10) The treatment given followed the purpose to eliminate the toxic: emesis, gastric washing and in cases of respiratory depression, naloxone was given.
  • (11) Clinical evidence of pain on injection, myoclonic muscle activity, apnea, nausea, and emesis were documented.
  • (12) Postoperative emesis, the most common reason for unscheduled admissions, occurred in 23.4% of patients.
  • (13) Emesis has long been thought to be organized by a 'vomiting centre'; the possibility that this vomiting centre could be the parvocellular reticular formation is reviewed, as is the concept that the 'centre' is larger than an anatomically defined single group of cells.
  • (14) The 24-h pH monitoring data were within normal ranges in 26 infants (20 controls, 2 babies with emesis, and 4 with RD).
  • (15) Both findings demonstrate that bismuth subsalicylate can provide antiemetic action and that the decreases in the occurrence of emesis in humans and dogs parallels the decrease in nausea found in humans and the nausea suspected to occur prior to emesis in dogs.
  • (16) As ICS205930, at high doses, is reported to be a 5-HT4 receptor antagonist it appears likely that activation of 5HT4-receptors contributes to emesis induced by zacopride.
  • (17) Only in recent years has serious attention been given to the control of chemotherapy-induced emesis (CIE) which is to the patient a most obnoxious side-effect.
  • (18) Two other sets of experiments suggest that dopaminergic mechanisms play a minor role in radiation-induced emesis in the ferret.
  • (19) There was no evidence of emesis during the experiments or of overt changes in the appearance of the oral cavity, heart, liver, spleen, kidney, proventriculus, gizzard, and intestines of a random sample of birds killed by carbon dioxide asphyxiation and necropsied.
  • (20) YM-08050 was more potent than either HPD or CPZ in inhibitory effects on a variety of behaviors such as apomorphine-induced stereotypes behavior and emesis, methamphetamine-induced stereotyped behavior, conditioned avoidance response and open field behavior.

Vomit


Definition:

  • (n.) To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.
  • (v. t.) To throw up; to eject from the stomach through the mouth; to disgorge; to puke; to spew out; -- often followed by up or out.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit; to throw forth; as, volcanoes vomit flame, stones, etc.
  • (n.) Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.
  • (n.) That which excites vomiting; an emetic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
  • (2) She had three attacks of severe migrainous headache accompanied with nausea and vomiting within three weeks.
  • (3) Occasional vomits occur postoperatively in over half of patients but we are sceptical of the value of graded postoperative feeding regimens.
  • (4) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.
  • (5) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
  • (6) Among the major symptoms were gastrointestinal disorders such as subjective and objective anorexia, nausea and vomiting.
  • (7) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
  • (8) Other toxicity was mild and included nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, mucositis, hepatic dysfunction, and cardiac arrhythmias.
  • (9) She said that in February 2013 she was asked to assist Pistorius in his first court appearance when applying for bail and sat with him in the cells, where he vomited twice.
  • (10) Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and prostration.
  • (11) Significantly more slow acetylators stopped treatment because of nausea or vomiting, or both, but serious toxicity was not confined to either group.
  • (12) Postoperative nausea and vomiting have been associated with the use of intravenous narcotics, and nitrous oxide may worsen the emetic effects of narcotics.
  • (13) The observed complications were post-labor hemorrhage (3.1%), polysystolia (4.1%) and vomiting (5.2%), without significant difference with the witness group.
  • (14) The paper is concerned with analysis of correlation of the time of appearance of vomit in a person and a mean dose rate of prolonged gamma-radiation in the persons affected at the Chernobyl accident.
  • (15) Side-effects (pruritus, nausea, vomiting, drowsiness) were also noted.
  • (16) The winter vomiting bug norovirus, which also puts strain on the NHS every winter because it leads to wards having to close, has not yet become a major problem, the latest evidence indicates.
  • (17) He had no family history of myopathy, and no diarrhea and vomiting.
  • (18) Fourteen of 15 patients had a reduction in nausea and vomiting on THC as compared to placebo.
  • (19) Twelve patients have been treated in this manner, nine of them living long enough to exhibit the capacity to eat and drink without repetitive vomiting.
  • (20) Her daughter had had a similar fit of vomiting blood at birth, back in their native Honduras.

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