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emetic - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Adjective

emetic (comparative more emetic, superlative most emetic)

• (pharmacology) Causing nausea and vomiting.
  • ✤ Synonyms: emetogenic; anacathartic (dated)
  • ✤ […] many common therapeutics of her time, such as the emetic calomel, dramatically inflamed the tongue, gums, and salivary glands.¹

Noun

emetic (plural emetics)

• (pharmacology) An agent that induces vomiting.
  • ✤ Synonyms: emetogen, vomitive, vomitory; anacathartic (dated)
  • ✤ 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.²

Etymology

From French émétique, from Vulgar Latin ﹡ emeticus, from Ancient Greek ἐμετικός (emetikós), from ἔμετος (émetos, “vomit”); by surface analysis, em(esis) +‎ -etic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /əˈmɛt.ɪk/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • ✤ Rhymes: -ɛtɪk

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid ‎${}^{[1]}$, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 61: ↩

2. 2022, Seth Garfield, *Guaraná […] *, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN: ↩

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