An agent that causes vomiting.
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Examples for "emetic "
Examples for "emetic "
1 When the symptoms first appear give the patient a warm water emetic .
2 The addition of a dose of garlic converts it into an emetic .
3 A teaspoonful of powdered dry Primrose root will act as an emetic .
4 He forced an emetic down her throat, but it had no effect.
5 An emetic kindly administered will set our friend here on his legs.
1 The doctors operated upon him as best they knew, with leeches and phlebotomy and purgatives and vomitives , and came very near killing him.
1 Suddenly came a frightful roar and a black beast leaped forth from the deep vomitory .
2 The upper tiers were approached by vomitories and by a subterranean corridor.
3 Here she made her way to a door that opened on the common and public vomitories of the structure.
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