emetic

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This should be effected by an emetic which is quickly obtained, and most powerful and speedy in its operation.

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  1. adjective Causing vomiting.
  2. noun An agent that causes vomiting.

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  1. Late Latin emeticos, from Greek emetikos, from emetos, vomiting, from emein, to vomit; see wemə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly emetick; = French émétique = Spanish emético = Portuguese Italian emetico, from Latin emeticus, from Greek ἐμετικός, causing vomit, from ἒμετος, vomiting, from ἐμεῖν (√*Fεμ-) = Latin vomere, vomit: see vomit.
 

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/əˈmɛtɪk/
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