Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In medicine, producing vomiting and purging at the same time.
- noun In medicine, a remedy producing vomiting and purging at the same time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.
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Examples
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The latter is an active emeto-cathartic, and is abundant on swampy grounds throughout the Southern States.
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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This is a powerful emeto-cathartic, producing diaphoresis, and expectoration, inducing also a tendency to sleep, independent of the exhaustion consequent upon vomiting.
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