释义 |
emetic /ɪˈmɛtɪk /adjective(Of a substance) causing vomiting.This is followed by up to two quarts of warm salted water or strong licorice tea which in such high dosage is emetic....- Early tolerance develops not only to the pleasurable euphoriant effects of heroin, but also to the analgesic, sedative, emetic, and respiratory depressant effects.
- Benzodiazepines and opioids - current standards of treatment for postoperative pain - have well-known sedative and emetic side effects.
nounA medicine or other substance which causes vomiting.Napoleon had been treated for a long time with tartar emetics, and the day he died he had been given a huge dose of calomer as a purgative....- Doctors resorted to medications that purged the poison from the body - mercury laxatives, calomel, and emetics such as ipecacuanha.
- Wounds were cleaned, broken bones were set, and medicinal emetics were administered.
Origin Mid 17th century: from Greek emetikos, from emein 'to vomit'. Rhymes aesthetic (US esthetic), alphabetic, anaesthetic (US anesthetic), antithetic, apathetic, apologetic, arithmetic, ascetic, athletic, balletic, bathetic, cosmetic, cybernetic, diabetic, dietetic, diuretic, electromagnetic, energetic, exegetic, frenetic, genetic, Helvetic, hermetic, homiletic, kinetic, magnetic, metic, mimetic, parenthetic, pathetic, peripatetic, phonetic, photosynthetic, poetic, prophetic, prothetic, psychokinetic, splenetic, sympathetic, syncretic, syndetic, synthetic, telekinetic, theoretic, zetetic |