nauseant
IPA: nˈɔziʌnt
noun
- (medicine) A substance that induces nausea.
adjective
- Inducing nausea.
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Examples of "nauseant" in Sentences
- Nauseants are akin to direct emetics.
- We must avoid adding too much of the tincture to any mixture, lest it convert it into a nauseant or emetic.
- The plant is official in the Pharmacopoeia of India as an emetic and in small doses is nauseant and diaphoretic.
- According to Feneuille, spigeline is bitter, nauseant, and purgative, and produces a sort of intoxication (ivresse).
- Now, no sedative or nauseant is known that does not lock up the natural secretions and thus lessen the digestive powers.
- The decoction of the root, taken in small doses, may be used wherever a nauseant and expectorant is required, and will aid in preventing the advance of colds, croup, pneumonia, etc.
- The 'Antimonii Potassio Tartras (Tartar Emetic)', besides its effect on the skin, is a useful nauseant, and invaluable in inflammation of the lungs and catarrhal affections of every kind.
- The doctor prescribed Diclectin, an anti-nauseant, but it knocks me out, which is great, except for the fact that I can't appreciate the absence of nausea from the condition of unconsciousness.
- Anevenne is also said to have detected two: polygalic and Virgineic -- the first of which will unite with bases; the second volatile, oily, nauseant, and emetic in small, diaphoretic, expectorant, and diuretic in large doses.
- In asthma and bronchitis, both of children and adults, Langley has used this plant with good results, and he recommends 1. 25-3.50 grams of the tincture (100 grams of the fresh plant to 500 of alcohol, 90°) repeated several times a day; the effect is expectorant, nauseant and, in large doses, emetic.