Palliative medicine

The tenth entry is il senso di nausea, and the English word that fits it best is the one that will not hold still. Italian divides the ground cleanly. La nausea is the sensation, vomitare is what may follow it, and essere malato is being ill in general. English loads all three onto « sick », and British English keeps them apart by grammar rather than by word. « I feel sick » is the nausea itself, and it is what a patient would actually say, because « nausea » is a chart word here and belongs in the notes rather than in a sentence. « I have been sick » is the vomiting, which is why a nurse asking « have you been sick? » is asking about the bowl and not about the illness. For being unwell in general, British English reaches for « ill ». In American English « sick » covers that general sense too, so the three meanings come apart along a different line. Both renderings of this entry are right, then, but they are not interchangeable: one belongs at the bedside and the other on the drug chart.