[a. obs. F. vomition (16th c.), or ad. L. vomitiōn-is, vomitio, noun of action f. vomĕre to vomit.] The action of vomiting.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Vomition, a vomiting, casting, or parbreaking.
1676. Grew, Musæum, Anat. Stomack & Guts, vi. 25. The use hereof with Vndulation, is for Vomition. Ibid. (1701), Cosm. Sacra, III. ii. 98. If the Stomack had wanted the Faculty of Vomition, they had inevitably died.
c. 1714. Arbuthnot, etc., M. Scriblerus, I. x. He attended Dr. Woodward through a twelve months course of vomition.
1800. Med. Jrnl., III. 585. Prof. Hufeland distinguishes two species of vomition of the milk observed in infants.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), II. 619. An emetic which … has the additional benefit of emulging the meseraic or mesenteric vessels by the act of vomition.
1908. Edin. Rev., July, 200. Some of these … were relieved by a copious vomition and survived.
