emetic

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1. medicineCausing nausea and vomiting.

   [...] many common therapeutics of her time, such as the emetic calomel, dramatically inflamed the tongue, gums, and salivary glands.

   2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 61

   Synonyms: emetogenic, anacathartic

plural emetics · alternative emetick

1. medicineAn agent that induces vomiting.

   As Jan McTavish notes, when the physician diagnosed the headache's origins in the digestive system, particularly constipation, the antidote might entail cathartics (substances that accelerate defecation) or emetics (inducers of vomiting) and other regulators of the digestive process.

   2022, Seth Garfield, Guaraná […] , Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN

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   Sticky had warned her that wild chuck-root ("or Euphorbia upchucuanhae, as it's more widely known") was a powerful emetic. [...] It was clear from their plan — and from Sticky's mischievous grin — that by tomorrow most of the students at the Institute would be barfing up their suppers.

   2007, Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society, page 400

   Synonyms: emetogen, vomitive, vomitory, anacathartic