emetic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /əˈmɛt.ɪk/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An agent that induces vomiting.
    — As Jan McTavish notes, when the physician diagnosed the headache's origins in the digestive system, particularly constipation, the antidote might entail cathartics (substances that accelerate defecation) or emetics (inducers of vomiting) and other regulators of the digestive process.
形容词 adj.
  1. Causing nausea and vomiting.
    — [...] many common therapeutics of her time, such as the emetic calomel, dramatically inflamed the tongue, gums, and salivary glands.

词形变化

more emetic comparative most emetic superlative emetick alternative emetics plural emetick alternative

词源

词源 1
From French émétique, from Vulgar Latin *emeticus, from Ancient Greek ἐμετικός (emetikós), from ἔμετος (émetos, “vomit”); by surface analysis, em(esis) + -etic.
词源 2
From French émétique, from Vulgar Latin *emeticus, from Ancient Greek ἐμετικός (emetikós), from ἔμετος (émetos, “vomit”); by surface analysis, em(esis) + -etic.
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