emetine

/em-i-teen, -tin/US // ˈɛm ɪˌtin, -tɪn //UK // (ˈɛməˌtiːn, -tɪn) //

依米汀,依美丁,艾美婷,依美婷

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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Pharmacology.
- : a crystalline or white powdery substance, C29H40N2O4, the active principle of ipecac: used chiefly in the treatment of amebic dysentery and as an emetic and expectorant.

Doctor Granville, at the outside, will cure his pyorrhea with emetine for no more than a paltry fifty dollars.
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.
Some cases of amibian dysentery are being treated with calomel, salol, and emetine.