nauseantn.adj.
/ˈnɔːzɪənt/, /ˈnɔːsɪənt/, U.S. /ˈnɔziənt/, /ˈnɑziənt/ Chiefly Medicine.
A. n.
A substance or agent which produces nausea. Also in extended use.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > emetic
vomita1400
vomitory1601
vomitive1611
vomiter1634
nauseate1651
emetic1658
puker1714
puke1729
pick1824
nauseant1825
1825 Lancet 14 May 164/2 Nauseants, especially colchicum, and the tartarized antimony are sometimes very useful.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 434 As a nauseant the dose is from two to five grains.
1890 Overland Monthly June 569/2 The squalor and malodorousness, the grime and filth..must have acted as repellents and nauseants to one accustomed to sweet country air.
1990 Independent (Nexis) 7 Aug. 13 Homeopathy works on the principle of similarity, so nausea might be treated with dilute preparations of nauseants.
2008 J. O'Neill Netherland (2009) 215 Now the meaning of what I'd seen..arrived as a pure nauseant. I almost threw up then and there.
B. adj.
Producing nausea; (in extended use) nauseating, extremely distasteful.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > emetic
vomitive1580
emetic1670
nauseant1854
1854 N.Y. Jrnl. Pharmacy 3 68 Nauseant Sedative—tartar emetic, ipecacuanha, and squill.
1879 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. (ed. 3) 455 Poke is nauseant and emetic.
1981 Jrnl. Clin. Pharmacol. 21 103S Patients about to receive their first treatment with potentially nauseant cancer chemotherapy were randomized to one of six antiemetic treatments.
1994 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 10 Apr. c14 What you said about the president..was totally nauseant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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