to sidebar Baby, You're Making Me Sick! One woman's torturous experience with Hyperemesis Gravidarum WHAT HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM IS TO ME... Hyperemesis gravidarum is from the Greek hyper-, meaning excessive, and emesis, meaning vomiting, as well as the Latin gravida, meaning pregnant. Therefore, hyperemesis gravidarum literally translates to "excessive vomiting in pregnancy".