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emetick

emetick is the obsolete form of emetic.

Meaning of emetic

Adjective

emetic (comparative more emetic, superlative most emetic)

  1. Causing nausea and vomiting.
    • [...] many common therapeutics of her time, such as the emetic calomel, dramatically inflamed the tongue, gums, and salivary glands.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 61

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Forms of emetick

Adjective
comparativemore emetick
superlativemost emetick
Noun
pluralemeticks

Questions about emetick

What is emetick the obsolete form of?
Emetick is the obsolete form of emetic.

Words near emetick in the dictionary

  1. emethallicin
  2. emethallicins
  3. emetic
  4. emetical
  5. emetically
  6. emetick
  7. emeticks
  8. emetics
  9. emetin
  10. emetine
  11. emetise

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