Definitions for emetine

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emetine em·e·tine

Spelling: [em-i-teen, -tin]

IPA: /ˈɛm ɪˌtin, -tɪn/

Emetine is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in emetine (eeeimnt).

Definitions for emetine

noun

1. a crystalline or white powdery substance, C 29 H 40 N 2 O 4 , the active principle of ipecac: used chiefly in the treatment of amebic dysentery and as an emetic and expectorant.

Origin of emetine

1810-20; Greek émet(os) vomiting + -ine²; compare French émétine

Examples for emetine

It might appear from this that emetine is soluble in hydrochlorate of ammonia.

If it be soluble, it may consist of aconitine, atropine or codeine; if insoluble, of emetine or morphine.

Doctor Granville, at the outside, will cure his pyorrhea with emetine for no more than a paltry fifty dollars.

Some cases of amibian dysentery are being treated with calomel, salol, and emetine.