emetic
adjective
- Being able to induce vomiting
noun
- drug that induces vomiting
- an agent that induces vomiting
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /əˈmɛt.ɪk/
adj
Etymology: From French émétique, from Vulgar Latin *emeticus, from Ancient Greek ἐμετικός (emetikós), from ἔμετος (émetos, “vomit”); by surface analysis, em(esis) + -etic.
- Causing nausea and vomiting.
“[...] many common therapeutics of her time, such as the emetic calomel, dramatically inflamed the tongue, gums, and salivary glands.”
noun
Etymology: From French émétique, from Vulgar Latin *emeticus, from Ancient Greek ἐμετικός (emetikós), from ἔμετος (émetos, “vomit”); by surface analysis, em(esis) + -etic.
- An 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.”