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Definition of Emetics
1. emetic [n] - See also: emetic
Medical Definition of Emetics
1. Agents that cause vomiting. They may act directly on the gastrointestinal tract, bringing about emesis through local irritant effects, or indirectly, through their effects on the chemoreceptor trigger zone in the postremal area near the medulla. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emetics
Literary usage of Emetics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Therapeutics: Its Principles and Practice by Horatio Charles Wood (1908)
"emetics. emetics are those drugs which are employed in the practice of medicine
for the purpose ... emetics produce their results in both of these methods. ..."
2. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"THERAPEUTIC USE OF emetics emetics are employed especially for the following ...
It must be remembered that emetics are ineffective in profound narcosis (by ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1831)
"The extent of our present design, is rather to revive certain principles connected
with the operation of emetics upon the human system, which, ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"emetics are abo administered in cases of fever, where the copious secretion they
produce from the glands of the stomach and intestines is supposed to have a ..."
5. The Practitioner's Handbook of Treatment, Or, The Principles of Therapeutics by John Milner Fothergill (1877)
"The Theory of emetics.—emetics are of two kinds, the direct and the specific.
... The specific emetics are those which also excite vomiting when ..."
6. Essentials of materia medica, therapeutics and prescription writing by Henry Morris (1906)
"emetics. What are emetics, and how do they act ? emetics are medicines which are
given to induce vomiting. They may act either by directly irritating the ..."
7. Materia Medica and Therapeutics: Including Pharmacy and Pharmacology by Reynold Webb Wilcox (1917)
"The milder emetics should be chosen, as this action should be maintained ...
On account of the straining induced by the vomiting, emetics are as a rule ..."
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