A mechanical system that imitates projectile vomiting. Researchers in North Carolina use the barfing machine to study how human noroviruses, leading causes of upchucking worldwide, spread through the ...

Whether it was the latest stomach bug or a bout of food poisoning, most of us are unfortunate enough to have had at least one epic vomiting episode. And if you’re like me, you’re probably queasy just ...

The ickiest, most horrible, most awful sound in all of creation? Vomiting. That's the verdict from a university's online survey that reportedly attracted more than 1.1 million votes. Throwing up is ...

Vomiting is a forceful expulsion of the contents of the stomach and sometimes the gut. The whole mechanism is guided and controlled by the brain and its vomiting centre. The fourth ventricle of the ...