1
: a stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit
experienced nausea during the cruise to Bermuda
2
: extreme disgust
looked at the murder scene with growing nausea
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Examples of nausea in a Sentence
Some people experience nausea when flying.
A feeling of nausea suddenly came over me.
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Dr. Jerrold B. Leikin, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Dr. Jerrold B. Leikin, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
Bhatia sees microdosing as an option for clients who come to her office with the goal of losing 20 pounds or less or patients who have proved to be sensitive to the side effects of GLP-1, which include nausea, constipation, lack of energy and diarrhea.
—Jackie Snow, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
Overdose with estrogen may also cause nausea, vomiting, and vaginal bleeding.8
4.
—Ross Phan, Pharmd, Bcacp, Bcgp, Bcps, Verywell Health, 1 Nov. 2024
One study showed that xylose isomerase supplementation significantly decreased nausea, vomiting, and breath hydrogen in people with fructose intolerance.
—Devineé Lingo, M.s., Health, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Nausea.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nausea. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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Etymology
from Latin nausea "seasickness, the stomach upset that causes an urge to vomit," from Greek nausia, nautia (same meaning), literally "ship sickness," from naus "ship" — related to astronaut, nautical, noise see Word History at noise
Word Origin
The ancient Greeks were a seagoing people, so seasickness was not rare for them. Their word for seasickness, nausia or nautia, came from their word for ship, naus. But nautia or nausia also meant the worst symptom of seasickness, the stomach upset and urge to vomit. Nausea, as we call this feeling in English, can be caused by something other than the motion of a ship. The ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, who spoke Latin, needed only one word for both seasickness and the upset in the stomach. The Romans borrowed the Greek word, spelling it nausea in Latin. English took the word directly from Latin.
Medical Definition
nausea
noun
nau·sea
ˈnȯ-zē-ə 
-sē-ə; ˈnȯ-zhə
-shə
-sē-ə; ˈnȯ-zhə
-shə
: a stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit
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