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Definition of Antiemetics
1. antiemetic [n] - See also: antiemetic
Medical Definition of Antiemetics
1. Drugs used to prevent nausea or vomiting. Antiemetics act by a wide range of mechanisms. Some act on the medullary contol centres (the vomiting centre and the chemoreceptive trigger zone) while others affect the peripheral receptors. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antiemetics
Literary usage of Antiemetics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of materia medica, therapeutics and pharmacology by George Frank Butler (1908)
"Drugs known as antiemetics are used to allay nausea and check vomiting. Like emetics,
these agents are divided into Local antiemetics or Gastric Sedatives ..."
2. Medical Marijuana Referenda Movement in America: Hearing Before the edited by Bill McCollum (2001)
"The antiemetics most commonly used in chemotherapy are metoclopramide (Reglan)
... Unfortunately, for many cancer patients these conventional antiemetics do ..."
3. Materia medica, pharmacy, pharmacology and therapeutics by William Hale-White (1892)
"antiemetics acting on the stomach.—These are all those substances which have been
already enumerated as having a sedative influence on the gastric nerves, ..."
4. Materia Medica and Therapeutics: A Text-book for Nurses by Linette Althana Parker (1921)
"antiemetics. antiemetics, as the name implies, are given to check emesis. As the
cause of emesis is usually a local irritation of the lining of the stomach ..."
5. Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics for Nurses by Amy Elizabeth Pope (1921)
"antiemetics—remedies which check vomiting. As vomiting is induced in many ways,
drugs with different actions are used as antiemetics; eg, antacids, ..."
6. Marijuana Use in America: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary U. S (1996)
"antiemetics effects of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in patients receiving cancer
chemotherapy. NEJM. 1975:293:795-797. 9. Chang et. al. ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1895)
"Almost any of the medicines called gastric sedatives or antiemetics may prove
useful, but nothing is specific. In the matter of diet, it is perhaps less ..."
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