Definition of Morning sickness

1. Noun. Nausea early in the day; a characteristic symptom in the early months of pregnancy.

Group relationships: Gestation, Maternity, Pregnancy
Generic synonyms: Nausea, Sickness

Definition of Morning sickness

1. Noun. (medicine) Early morning nausea and vomiting as a symptom of pregnancy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Morning sickness

1. Recurrent nausea and vomiting often seen in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy and more pronounced in the mornings. Synonym: hyperemesis gravidarum. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Morning Sickness

morning draughts
morning dress
morning gift
morning glories
morning glory
morning glory seeds
morning gun
morning impaired
morning kitchen
morning people
morning person
morning prayer
morning room
morning sickness (current term)
morning sleep
morning star
morning stars
morning suit
morning tea
morning teas
morning tent
morning time
morning vomiting
morning wood
morning woods
morning zoo
morning zoos
morningless

Literary usage of Morning sickness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Legal Medicine by Charles Meymott Tidy (1884)
"Of these symptoms "morning-sickness " sometimes making its appearance simultaneously with conception, is diagnostically the most important. ..."

2. Homoeopathic Domestic Medicine by Joseph Laurie (1848)
"morning sickness. morning sickness, nausea, vomiting, and heartburn, are the most distressing symptoms attendant on the course of pregnancy ; these ..."

3. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1861)
"Dr. Gans stated that he had used this medicine to considerable extent for other forms of nausea than that known as morning sickness, but his experience had ..."

4. Perfect Womanhood for Maidens--wives--mothers: A Book Giving Full by Mary Ries Melendy (1903)
"SECOND SYMPTOM Morning-sickness is one of the earliest symptoms of pregnancy; ... Morning-sickness, then, if it does not arise from a disordered stomach, ..."

5. A System of midwifery by Edward Rigby (1851)
"morning sickness. One of the most troublesome, and by no means the least frequent, ... is commonly called morning sickness; in some cases the female merely ..."

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