vomica
noun
vomica is a noun meaning “An abscess cavity in the lungs or any other parenchymal organ” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-O-M-I-C-A, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vomica is vomicas or vomicae.
What does vomica mean?
noun
- 1
An abscess cavity in the lungs or any other parenchymal organ.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vomica
- vomicas plural
- vomicae plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vomica?
Vomica appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does vomica come from?
Latin, from vomere (“to throw up, vomit”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).