tartar emetic

noun Chemistry, Pharmacology.

a white, water-soluble, sweet and metallic-tasting, poisonous powder or granules, C4H4KO7Sb, used as a mordant for dyeing textiles and leather, and in medicine as an expectorant, for inducing vomiting, and for infections by schistosomes.

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Origin of tartar emetic

First recorded in 1695–1705

Also called antimony potassium tartrate, potassium antimonyl tartrate.

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Examples from the Web for potassium antimonyl tartrate

Dressed it with tartar-emetic ointment until the skin was very sore; using iodine on other puts of the knee.
Report on Surgery to the Santa Clara County Medical Society|Joseph Bradford Cox
Calomel and tartar-emetic were administered, but without any effect.
Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.|Benson J. Lossing

British Dictionary definitions for potassium antimonyl tartrate

tartar emetic

noun

another name for antimony potassium tartrate

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Medicine definitions for potassium antimonyl tartrate

tartar emetic

n.

A poisonous crystalline compound used in medicine as an expectorant and in the treatment of parasitic infections, such as schistosomiasis.