Emetic Definition

ĭ-mĕtĭk
adjective
Causing vomiting.
Webster's New World
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noun
An emetic medicine or other substance.
Webster's New World
An agent that causes vomiting.
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Other Word Forms of Emetic

Noun

Singular:
emetic
Plural:
emetics

Origin of Emetic

  • Late Latin emeticos from Greek emetikos from emetos vomiting from emein to vomit wemə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French émétique, from Vulgar Latin *emeticus, from Ancient Greek ἐμετικός (emetikos), from ἔμετος (emetos, “vomit”)

    From Wiktionary

Emetic Sentence Examples

  • As regards treatment, the stomach must be washed out with warm water by means of a soft rubber tube, an emetic being also administered.

  • The chief use of hard soap is in enemata, and as a suppository in children suffering from constipation; it also forms the basis of many pills; given in warm water it forms a ready emetic in cases of poisoning.

  • The sulphate is an excellent emetic in cases of poisoning, acting rapidly and without much nausea or depression.

  • Apomorphine is essentially a muscle poison, but owing to the fact that minute 'doses stimulate the vomiting centre and cause emesis before any other symptoms are observable, its emetic action is the most prominent effect in man.

  • In man its chief effect is its emetic action, which seems to be due entirely to local irritation of the stomach.

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Words Starting With

EEMEME

Words Ending With

CICTIC

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Words Starting With E and Ending With C

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