Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Restraining or allaying vomiting.
  • noun A medicine which checks vomiting.
  • noun Also written anti-emetic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.) Tending to check vomiting.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Alternative form of antiemetic.
  • noun Alternative form of antiemetic.

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Examples

  • (iii) Try to contain the vomiting with an antemetic (an anti-vomiting medicine, eg Gravol, etc).

    Stabroek News Dr Steve Surujbally 2010

  • (iii) Try to contain the vomiting with an antemetic (an anti-vomiting medicine, eg Gravol, etc).

    Stabroek News Dr Steve Surujbally 2010

  • (iii) Try to contain the vomiting with an antemetic (an anti-vomiting medicine, eg Gravol, etc).

    Stabroek News Dr Steve Surujbally 2010

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