Crossword-Solution: EMETINE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Emetine | n. | A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle. |
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| white bitter poisonous alkaloid | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EMETINE (5)
Doctor Granville, at the outside, will cure his pyorrhea with emetine for no more than a paltry fifty dollars.
Farrow (our own veteran M.O.) in July, but indeed all the units were happy in their doctors, and _emetine_ in dysentery cases was a gift of gold.
Then would come the time for another inoculation with _emetine_, and we would join the long line of men waiting, stripped to the waist, for Captain Hummel's needle.
Upon pressing these crystals in a cloth the more or less coloured mother liquid runs off, and the crystals redissolved in water give a colourless solution, from which a fresh crystallisation of perfectly pure hydrochlorate of emetine can readily be obtained.
The production of this crystallised hydrochlorate of emetine is worthy of notice, since it does not accord with what has been stated by different authors, who have all considered emetine to be incapable of forming crystallisable salts.