morning sickness

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Recent Examples of morning sickness Unlike typical morning sickness, HG can cause prolonged vomiting, dehydration, weight loss and malnutrition. Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025 From severe morning sickness to complications that required hospitalization, the experience left me exhausted and anxious about the possibility of going through it again. Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025 In the 1960s, a drug called thalidomide that was widely prescribed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women caused severe birth defects in over 10,000 children around the world. Almut Winterstein, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2025 My goal is that every household would get one to keep on hand, like a thermometer, there’s someone in every house who can use one at some point, not just for travel and morning sickness, but for nausea from migraines, anxiety, and hangovers. IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2018 See All Example Sentences for morning sickness
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Noun
  • In clinical trials, Nereus helped up to 90 percent of people prone to motion sickness avoid vomiting while riding on a boat.
    Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Vanda had been subject to investigations over the long-term safety of the drug, but the company and the FDA agreed that motion sickness is an acute condition, so no-one should be taking this medication for extended periods of time.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Use this after a night of one too many cocktails, or simply add to your in-flight water to prevent dehydration or mountain sickness.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 4 July 2024
  • These researchers would like to pave the way to therapies for chronic mountain sickness, but first need to better define what living and working at this altitude does to human bodies.
    STAT staff, STAT, 24 Dec. 2019
Noun
  • Given its altitude exceeding 13,146 ft (4,000-plus meters) above sea level, precautions need to be taken to guard against altitude sickness.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 19 Jan. 2026
  • In extreme cases – when the brain swells and lungs fill with fluid – severe altitude sickness can be fatal.
    Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • For some, the trip means dealing with car sickness.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025

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“Morning sickness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morning%20sickness. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.

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