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What does emetine mean?

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Noun
  1. (chemistry) A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.
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Doctor Granville, at the outside, will cure his pyorrhea with emetine for no more than a paltry fifty dollars.
If patients use this emetic, the emetine that it contains can cause myocardial damage similar to viral myocarditis.
Some cases of amibian dysentery are being treated with calomel, salol, and emetine.
A modern look is given to berberine, sanguinaria, quinine, emetine and other less prominent anti-infective drugs.
Effect of emetine and related compounds on experimental cutaneous leishmaniasis.
On a new aerobic metabolite whose production by brain is inhibited by apomorphine, emetine, ergotamine, epinephrine, and menadione.

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