Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Inducing nausea or vomiting.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A substance which produces nausea.
- Producing nausea; nauseating: as, nauseant doses.
Wiktionary
- n. medicine A substance which produces nausea.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) A substance which produces nausea; an emetic.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting
Etymologies
- Latin nauseans. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The doctor prescribed Diclectin, an anti-nauseant, but it knocks me out, which is great, except for the fact that I can't appreciate the absence of nausea from the condition of unconsciousness.”
“The plant is official in the Pharmacopoeia of India as an emetic and in small doses is nauseant and diaphoretic.”
“In asthma and bronchitis, both of children and adults, Langley has used this plant with good results, and he recommends 1. 25-3.50 grams of the tincture (100 grams of the fresh plant to 500 of alcohol, 90°) repeated several times a day; the effect is expectorant, nauseant and, in large doses, emetic.”
“Now, no sedative or nauseant is known that does not lock up the natural secretions and thus lessen the digestive powers.”
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“According to Feneuille, spigeline is bitter, nauseant, and purgative, and produces a sort of intoxication (ivresse).”
“We must avoid adding too much of the tincture to any mixture, lest it convert it into a nauseant or emetic.”
“The decoction of the root, taken in small doses, may be used wherever a nauseant and expectorant is required, and will aid in preventing the advance of colds, croup, pneumonia, etc.”
“Anevenne is also said to have detected two: polygalic and Virgineic -- the first of which will unite with bases; the second volatile, oily, nauseant, and emetic in small, diaphoretic, expectorant, and diuretic in large doses.”
“The 'Antimonii Potassio Tartras (Tartar Emetic)', besides its effect on the skin, is a useful nauseant, and invaluable in inflammation of the lungs and catarrhal affections of every kind.”
“Notice that the drug with the potentially horrendous side effects was an anti-nauseant.”
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