Definitions for emetines

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emetines em·e·tine

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

IPA: /ˈɛm ɪˌtin, -tɪn/

Emetines is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in emetines (eeeimnst).

Definitions for emetines

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 emetines

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

Examples for emetines

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.

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

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