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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| emesis |
| SYLLABICATION: | em·e·sis |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   m  -ss |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. em·e·ses (-s z )The act of vomiting. |
| ETYMOLOGY: | Greek, from emein, to vomit. See wem - in Appendix I.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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