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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment Nausea & Vomiting Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Clinical Findings, Symptoms and Signs, Differential Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Laboratory Tests, Imaging Studies, Diagnostic Procedures, Treatment, Medications, Therapeutic Procedures, Outcome, Complications, Prevention, When to Admit, References,
. Topics Discussed: antiemetic agent; nausea; nausea and vomiting; vomiting. Excerpt: | | Nausea is a vague, intensely disagreeable sensation of sickness or "queasiness"
Distinguished from anorexia
Retching (spasmodic respiratory and abdominal movements) often follows
Vomiting may or may not follow
Vomiting should be distinguished from regurgitation, the effortless reflux of liquid or solid (food) stomach contents, and from rumination, the chewing and swallowing of food that is regurgitated volitionally after meals
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