hematemesis

English

Alternative forms

• haematemesis, hæmatemesis (British spelling)

Etymology

From hemat- + emesis.

Noun

hematemesis (countable and uncountable, plural hematemeses) (American spelling)

1. (pathology) The vomiting of blood; blood within vomitus.

Translations

vomiting with blood

• Bengali: রক্তবমন (bn) (roktobomon)
• Catalan: hematèmesi f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嘔血 / 呕血 (zh) (ǒuxuè)

• French: hématémèse (fr) f
• German: Bluterbrechen (de)
• Greek: αιματέμεση (el) (aimatémesi)
• Japanese: 吐血 (ja) (toketsu)
• Portuguese: (Brazil) hematêmese f, (Portugal) hematémese f
• Spanish: hematemesis f
• Swedish: blodkräkning
• Tagalog: pagsukandugo

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish hemato-

Ancient Greek ἐμέω (eméō)

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Hellenic *-tis

Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)

Ancient Greek -σις (-sis)

Ancient Greek ἔμεσις (émesis)

Spanish hematemesis

From hemato- + Ancient Greek ἔμεσις (émesis, “vomit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /emateˈmesis/ [e.ma.t̪eˈme.sis]
• Rhymes: -esis
• Syllabification: he‧ma‧te‧me‧sis

Noun

hematemesis f (plural hematemesis)

1. (pathology) hematemesis

Further reading

• “hematemesis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025