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Word Meanings - ECCRITIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.

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  • EMETIC
    Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth. -- n.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • EMETICAL
    Inducing to vomit; producing vomiting; emetic. -- E*met"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • CATHARTIC
    A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity. Note: The cathartics are more energetic and certain in action that the laxatives, which simply increase the tendency to alvine evacuation; and less powerful and
  • REMEDY
    The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong. Civil remedy. See under Civil. -- Remedy of the mint , a small allowed deviation from the legal standard of weight and fineness; -- called also tolerance. Syn. -- Cure;
  • CATHARTIC; CATHARICAL
    Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative. 2. Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid.
  • ANTEMETIC
    Tending to check vomiting. -- n.
  • ANACATHARTIC
    Producing vomiting or expectoration. -- n.
  • EMETO-CATHARTIC
    Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.
  • CATO-CATHARTIC
    A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.
  • ANTIEMETIC
    See ANTEMETIC

 

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