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MORNING SICKNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does morning sickness mean?
• MORNING SICKNESS (noun)
The noun MORNING SICKNESS has 1 sense:
1. nausea early in the day; a characteristic symptom in the early months of pregnancy
Familiarity information: MORNING SICKNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Nausea early in the day; a characteristic symptom in the early months of pregnancy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("morning sickness" is a kind of...):
nausea; sickness (the state that precedes vomiting)
Holonyms ("morning sickness" is a part of...):
gestation; maternity; pregnancy (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)
Context examples
These include morning sickness during pregnancy, infections, migraine headaches, motion sickness, food poisoning, cancer chemotherapy or other medicines.
(Nausea and Vomiting, NIH)
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