Suffix -emesis means?

• A. Nausea
• B. Pain
• C. Bleeding
• D. Vomiting

Answer: (D)

Suffix -emesis denotes vomiting. In medical terminology, emesis refers to the act of vomiting, and it appears in words that describe vomiting, such as hematemesis (vomiting blood) or hyperemesis (excessive vomiting). Nausea, by contrast, is the sensation of wanting to vomit, not the act itself. Pain is described with endings like -algia or -odynia, and bleeding is described with endings like -rrhage or -rrhagia. Because -emesis specifically means vomiting, this interpretation best fits the suffix.