Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In medicine, throwing upward; cleansing by exciting discharges from the mouth or nose, as vomiting, expectoration, etc.
  • noun One of a class of medicines which excite discharges by the mouth or nose, as expectorants, emetics, sternutatories, and masticatories.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.) Producing vomiting or expectoration.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An expectorant or emetic medicine.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek to cleanse upward, i.e. by vomiting. See cathartic.

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