Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bitter-tasting crystalline alkaloid, C29H40N2O4, derived from ipecac root and used in the treatment of amebiasis and as an emetic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An alkaloid found in ipecacuanha, and forming its active principle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It is very probable that a comparative experimental study will prove the existence of a large number of elementary species, differing in many points; they will probably also show differences in the amount of the active chemical substances, especially of emetine, which is usually recorded as present in about 1\%, but which will undoubtedly be found in larger quantities in some, and in smaller quantities in other elementary species.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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And right now they're jolting his gums and the pus-sacs with emetine.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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I have diagnosed it as pyorrhea which has infected the stomach from the mouth, and have suggested emetine treatment of the mouth as a cure for the stomach disorder.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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Doctor Granville, at the outside, will cure his pyorrhea with emetine for no more than a paltry fifty dollars.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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After a few months Wim was admitted into the Dutch military hospital in Western Java for a second course of emetine injections.
Archive 2004-11-01 2004
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The emetine injections prescribed for amoebic dysentery gradually brought the disease under control.
Archive 2004-11-01 2004
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You feel the good effects of the emetine within six hours and the remedy, continued, kills the amoeba the way quinine kills the malarial parasite.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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You feel the good effects of the emetine within six hours and the remedy, continued, kills the amoeba the way quinine kills the malarial parasite.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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Your amoebic dysentery correspondent is in bed, fully injected with emetine, having flown four hundred miles to Nairobi via Arusha from where the outfit is camped on the Serenea river on the far side of the Serengeti plain.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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Your amoebic dysentery correspondent is in bed, fully injected with emetine, having flown four hundred miles to Nairobi via Arusha from where the outfit is camped on the Serenea river on the far side of the Serengeti plain.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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