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Nausea

Definitions: Nausea

Nausea

Noun

1. The state that precedes vomiting.

2. Disgust so strong it makes you feel sick.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nausea" was first used: some time in the early 15th century. (references)

Etymology: Nausea \Nau"se*a\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from ship. See Nave of church, and compare to Noise.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: Nausea

DomainDefinitions

Aerospace

A feeling of discomfort in the region of the stomach, with aversion to food and a tendency to vomit. (references)

Health

An unpleasant sensation in the stomach usually accompanied by the urge to vomit. Common causes are early pregnancy, sea and motion sickness, emotional stress, intense pain, food poisoning, and various enteroviruses. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Nausea

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Nausea is the sensation of unease and discomfort from the stomach, with the sufferer feeling that he is about to vomit (though he may not actually do so).

It is a symptom of a huge variety of conditions, from motion sickness to morning sickness and encompassing viral infections and many other diseases. It is a side effect of many drugs, both therapeutic and recreational.

In medicine, nausea is the cause of most distressing problems during some chemotherapy regimens. Nausea is also a well-known "side-effect" of pregnancy and of blood donation.

Whilst short-term nausea and vomiting are in themselves harmless, they are indicative of some disease which may be serious, and a longer episode can result in serious dehydration, which is dangerous.

Symptomatic treatment for nausea and vomiting usually includes avoidance of solid food (which is usually easy as nausea suffers tend to refuse to eat) and rehydration (with electrolyte solutions if the symptoms have been persistent).

Nausea (French La Nausée) is a novel by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nausea."

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Synonym: Nausea

Synonym: sickness (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Nausea

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dislike

Repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing; averseness, aversation, aversion; abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror; mortal antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror; hatred, detestation; hate; animosity; hydrophobia; canine madness; byssa, xenophobia. sickener; gall and wormwood; (unsavory); shuddering, cold sweat.

Weariness

Disgust, nausea, loathing, sickness; satiety; taedium vitae; (dejection); boredom, ennui.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Nausea

English words defined with "nausea": Aethusa cynapium, altitude sickness, Antabuse, antiemetic, antiemetic drug, antineoplastic, antineoplastic drugcancer drug, cephalitis, Creatic, Crohn's diseasedisulfiram, dronabinol, dyspepsia, Dyspepsyemetic, encephalitis, ergotismfool's parsleygastritis, giardiasisheat exhaustion, heat prostration, hyoscineindigestionlesser hemlock, loathsomemeningitis, morning sickness, mountain sicknessnauseant, nauseated, nauseating, Nauseative, nauseous, noisomeoffensiveparathion poisoning, phrenitis, prochlorperazine, prostrationqualm, Qualmish, queasiness, queasyradiation sickness, radiation syndrome, ratbite fever, recurrent fever, regional enteritis, regional ileitis, relapsing feverscopolamine, sick, sick headache, sickening, sickish, squeamishness, stomach upsettoxic shock, toxic shock syndrome, TSSupset stomachvile, vomit, vomitive. (references)
Specialty definitions using "nausea": acustimulation, Amaurosis Fugax, amaurosis partialis fugax, Anisakiasis, antiemetic agent, Antiemetics, Antipsychotic AgentsBismuth Subsalicylate, Bywaters' syndromeCholinesterase inhibitors, crush syndrome, Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome, CyclosporaDosage Forms, DracunculiasisEthylene Chlorohydrinfume feverGastroparesishemotherapis, High Pressure Neurological Syndrome, Hypertensive EncephalopathyIlllerisetronMarinol, morning nauseaNonulcer DyspepsiaOndansetronpartial fugacious amaurosis, PHERESIS SPECIALIST, Postcholecystectomy Syndrome, Postoperative Nausea and Vomitingsalicylism, Sick, Sick as a Horse, side effects, soroche. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Nausea" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (nausea), Dutch (nausea), German (nausea), Italian (disgust, feel sick, nausea, qualm, queasiness, sickness), Latin (annoyance, discomfort, disgust, nausea, noise, seasickness).

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Modern Usage: Nausea

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Too tired to stay awake, but the sickness is on its way. Sweat, chills, nausea. Pain and craving. (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

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Commercial Usage: Nausea

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cancer Treatment & Marijuana Therapy: Marijuana's Use in the Reduction of Nausea and Vomiting and for Appetite Stimulation in Cancer Patients. testim (reference)

  • Demons, Nausea, and Resistance in the Autobiography of Isabel De Jesus: 1611-1682 (reference)

  • Nausea (reference)

  • Nausea and Vomiting: Mechanisms and Treatment (Advances in Applied Neurological Sciences, Vol 3) (reference)

  • The Handbook of Nausea and Vomiting (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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Non-Fiction Usage: Nausea

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Domperidone also helps with nausea. (references)

Sometimes nausea and vomiting occur. (references)

Sedatives may help if the nausea continues. (references)

Travel

Mexico

Insomnia, fatigue, circulatory problems, symptoms of dehydration, and nausea are common, but pass quickly. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Nausea

"Nausea" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.07% of the time. "Nausea" is used about 259 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)98.07%25418,599
Noun (proper)1.93%5157,705
                    Total100.00%259N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Nausea

Expressions using "nausea": bring by nausea feeling of nausea felling of nausea morning nausea overcome by nausea Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "nausea": nausea-inducing.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nausea

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

nausea

514

nausea pregnancy

83

cause of nausea

49

dizziness and nausea

27

nausea medication

26

headache and nausea

23

nausea remedy

22

cure for nausea

22

nausea vomiting

21

chronic nausea

20
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Modern Translations: Nausea

Language Translations for "nausea"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

neveri (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, contempt, disdain, disgust, disrelish, distaste, execration, gorge, horror, loathing, odiousness, odium, recoil, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, scorn), të pështjellë, të përzier. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قرف (cause disgust, disgust, loathing, revulsion), ‏غثيان (disgust, qualm, queasiness, sickness, squeamishness), ‏تقزز (nauseate, repulsion, revolt, revulsion), ‏إشمئزاز شديد, ‏إشمئزاز (abhorrence, horror, loathing, obsession, pout, qualm, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, sway). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

гадене (qualm, queasiness, queerness, retch, retching, sickness), отвращение (abhorrence, abomination, allergy, antipathy, detestation, disgust, disrelish, distaste, execration, horror, loathing, odium, phobia, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, scunner, sickener), морска болест (seasickness), погнусяване, погнуса (abhorrence, abomination, disgust, loathing, revulsion), повръщане (puke, sickness, vomiting), повдигане (boost, heave, levitation, lift, lifting, promotion, queasiness, queerness, retch, retching, rising, taking up, uptake). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

恶心 (Abominable). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nevolnost (malaise, qualm, qualmishness), zvedání žaludku, odpor (antipathy, aversion, contradiction, disgust, dislike, distaste, opposition, protest, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, resentment, resistance, revulsion), ošklivost (detestation, disgust, repugnance, ugliness). (various references)

   

Danish

  

væmmelse (disgust, loathing). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

walging (abhorrence, abomination, disgust, horror, loathing), walg (disgust, loathing), nausea, misselijkheid (disgust), afkeer (antipathy, aversion, disgust, dislike, loathing). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

naŭzo (disgust). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

vaml (disgust, loathing). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

حالت تهوع (Qualm), حالت استفراغ , انزجار (Abhorrence, Antipathy, Disgust, Mislike, Phobia, Pique), دل اشوب . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pahoinvointi, kuvotus, kuvottaa, iljetys (loathing). (various references)

   

French

  

nausée. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

mier (aversion, disgust, dislike, loathing). (various references)

   

German

  

Ekel (aversion, beast, disgust, distaste, loathing, odious person, revulsion, squeamishness, toad), Nausea, brechreiz, Übelkeit (disgust, loathing), übelkeit (morning sickness, qualm, queasiness, rankness, sickness, squeamishness, undesirability). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ναυτία (car sickness, nauseousness, qualm, seasickness, travel sickness). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מחלת ים (sea sickness), מ'על (disgust, revulsion), קבס, 'על פש (detestation, disgust, loathing, odiousness), 'על (disgust, horror, loathing, repulsion, revulsion), 'עול (abhorrence, dirty, loathing, unclean), בחיל" (disgust, fulsomeness, noisomemess, queasiness, revulsion, sickness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

undor (abhorrence, abomination, cloying, disgust, loathing, my gorge rises at it, repugnance, rising of the stomach, surfeit), hányinger (feeling of sickness, retch, retching), undorodás (distaste, horror, loathing), tengeribetegség, megcsömörlés, csömör (cloying, disgust, heaving, rising of the stomach, surfeit), émelygés (qualm, queasiness, retch, rising of the stomach, sickness, squeamishness, surfeit). (various references)

   

Italian

  

nausea (disgust, feel sick, qualm, queasiness, sickness), ripugnanza (abhorrence, aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, loathing, repugnance), avversione (abhorrence, antipathy, aversion, detestation, disgust, disinclination, dislike, distaste, loathing, repugnance, revolt, revulsion). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

悪心 (evil thought, malicious motive, urge to vomit), 吐き気 (sickness in the stomach), "き気 , み使い (angel, be impatient, bushy, conspicuously, crunch, giant flying squirrel, incomprehensible muttering, irresistibly, itch, itchy, make good use of, make the most of, morose, munch, offended, queasy, ragged, rugged, shaggy, soy sauce, stuffy, suddenly, sullen, surge of anger, talking in sleep, to be fretful, to be in a spleen, to be in a temper, to be in ill humour, to be irritated, to be vexed, to become angry or sullen, to become serious, to blow, to feel irritated, to feel offended, to feel sick, to fret, to have the appearance of ~, to jerk off, to masturbate, to show signs of ~, to take somethingseriously, woman's desire). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おし" (evil thought, malicious motive, urge to vomit), あくし" (evil thought, malicious motive, urge to vomit), むかむか (queasy, surge of anger), はきけ (sickness in the stomach). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

구역질. (various references)

   

Manx

  

jiooldaght (biliousness, negativity, queasiness, rejection, sickliness, squeamishness), feohdys (abomination), chingys gailley (gastric troubles, stomach pain). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

disgustu (dejection, disgust, loathing, sadness, sorrow), disgusto (disgust, loathing), desgusto (disgust, loathing), debòr (abhorrence, abomination, disgust, horror, loathing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

auseanay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

náusea (qualm, queasiness). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

silã (coercion, compulsion, constraint, forceviolence, grudge, horror, loathing, objection, pooh pooh, repletion), rãu de mare (seasickness), greaţã (abhorrence, aversion, disgust, dislike, nauseousness, queasiness, repugnance, sickness). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

тошнота (qualmishness, queasiness, sickness). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

odvratnost (averse, odiousness, odium, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, sordidness, unpleasantness), muka (anguish, annoyance, limbo, need, qualm, queasiness, torment), mučnina, gađenje (disgust, loathing, qualmishness, queasiness, retch, scunner). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

náusea (qualm, retching), repugnancia (antipathy, aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, loathing, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, unwillingness), aversión (abhorrence, abomination, antipathy, aversion, disgust, disinclination, dislike, distaste, horror, indisposition, loathing). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

äckel (disgust, disrelish, loathing, louses, repulsive chap, stinker), illamående (qualm, sick, sickness, unwell). (various references)

   

Thai

  

อาการคลื่นไส้, ความน่ารังเกียจ (nastiness, noisomeness). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

mide bulantısı (nauseation, qualm, queasiness, sickness), iğrenme (abhorrence, abomination, contempt, detestation, disgust, execration, hate, loathing, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion), bulantı (nauseation, qualm, queasiness, sickness). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

огида (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, hate, hatred, horror, loathing, odium, repugnance, repulsion), нудота (aridity, aridness, distaste, qualm, queasiness, sickness, wamble), морська хвороба (seasickness). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự tởm, sự lộn mửa sự kinh tởm, sự bu"n nôn (qualm, qualmishness, queasiness). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Nausea

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

nausea, nauseam, nausiam. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Nausea

Derivations

Words beginning with "nausea": nauseant, nauseants, nauseas, nauseate, nauseated, nauseates, nauseating, nauseatingly. (additional references)

Words ending with "nausea": antinausea. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Nausea" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ansae, Anusha, Danusia, lauzeta, naiea, naise, Nakugen, Naseef, Nasuta, naus, nausa, nauseau, nauseo, nauses, nauset, nauseu, Naushad, nausia, Nausikaa, Nauta, nautae, Negusa, neguse, neusea, Neusel, Niseac, Niuean, nosea, Noumea, nusea, nyassae. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Nausea"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "nausea" (pronounced nô"zēu)
3-z ē ugymnasia.

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Anagrams: Nausea

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-n-s-u"

-1 letter: ansae, sauna, usnea.

-2 letters: anas, anes, ansa, anus, asea, sane.

-3 letters: aas, ana, ane, eau, ens, nae, nus, sae, sau, sea, sen, sue, sun, uns, use.

-4 letters: aa, ae, an, as, en, es, na, ne, nu, un, us.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-n-s-u"
 

+1 letter: guanase, nauseas.

 

+2 letters: bandeaus, guanases, manteaus, nauseant, nauseate, saucepan, unawares.

 

+3 letters: acutances, aeronauts, anacruses, analogues, angulates, aquatones, assurance, auslander, calcaneus, canulates, epifaunas, eulachans, evacuants, guaranies, harangues, languages, nauseants, nauseated, nauseates, oceanauts, pansexual, runagates, saucepans, slanguage, sugarcane, sultanate, unabashed, unashamed, unsalable, unsayable.

 

+4 letters: abundances, acanthuses, aluminates, amanuenses, amanuensis, ambulances, amiantuses, andalusite, aneurysmal, annualizes, antinausea, antiquates, antisexual, aquaplanes, arenaceous, assurances, athenaeums, attenuates, auslanders, calendulas, casualness, centaureas, crustacean, euthanasia, euthanasic, granulates, guarantees, guaranties, haranguers, hausfrauen, infatuates, landaulets, malaguenas, mandamused, mandamuses, megafaunas, menopausal, naturalise, naumachies, nauseating, neuralgias, pandanuses, pasquinade, quadrantes, quandaries, restaurant, semiannual, slanguages, submanager, succedanea, sugarcanes, sultanates, suprarenal, tantaluses, transudate, transvalue, unappeased, unassailed, unassuaged, unbalances, unbandages, unpassable, unpleasant, unsalaried, unsaturate, unscalable, unshakable, unslakable.

 

+5 letters: acaulescent, accentuates, adenomatous, adjutancies, admeasuring, adulterants, aeronautics, ailanthuses, andalusites, animalcules, annunciates, antinatures, antiplagues, antiquaries, aquamarines, aquaplaners, aquatinters, assuagement, attenuators, beauticians, calumniates, cantaloupes, causewaying, crustaceans, denaturants, encapsulate, euthanasias, evacuations, evaluations, factualness, farinaceous, fricandeaus, glutaminase, gradualness, inaugurates, langlaufers, laureations, manipulates, naturalised, naturalises, naturalizes, naturalness, oceanariums, outbalances, pasquinaded, pasquinades, pastureland, quadrangles, quantitates, quarantines, quartersawn, reacquaints, reassurance, restaurants, sanctuaries, saponaceous, sauerbraten, seminatural, solanaceous, strangulate, sublanguage, submanagers, supernatant, suprarenals, sustainable, transsexual, transudates, transvalued, transvalues, unabashedly, unashamedly, unaspirated, unawareness, unballasted, uncastrated, unescapable, ungraspable, unsaturated, unsaturates, unseparated, unspeakable, unspeakably, vernaculars, vulcanisate.

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Alternative Orthography: Nausea


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 61 75 73 65 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    .-    ..-    ...    .    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100001 01110101 01110011 01100101 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#97 &#117 &#115 &#101 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0061 0075 0073 0065 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

486787857167

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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