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 oremetic medicine .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek to cleanse upward, i.e. by vomiting. See cathartic.
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- return to life after seeming death. anacathartic
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