Nauseant
producing nausea.
a nauseant agent.
Historical Examples
Cordite mingled with the raw, nauseant, revolting smell of scorched flesh and hair.
Operation Lorelie William P. Salton
Now, no sedative or nauseant is known that does not lock up the natural secretions and thus lessen the digestive powers.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why Martha M. Allen
The nauseant action of squill, which is alluded to in connection with Anasarcin, is too well known to require more than a mention.
The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 Various
By the operation of the nauseant the violent action of the heart in high fever may be allayed.
The Action of Medicines in the System Frederick William Headland
Diaphoretic, nauseant, and emetic when warm; tonic when cold.
Cooley’s Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades…, Sixth Edition, Volume I Arnold Cooley
The influence of Antimony on the glandular organs is indirectly but powerfully intensified by its nauseant action.
The Action of Medicines in the System Frederick William Headland
The plant is official in the Pharmacopœia of India as an emetic and in small doses is nauseant and diaphoretic.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines T. H. Pardo de Tavera
n.
1834, from Latin nauseant-, present participle stem of nauseare (see nauseate (v.)).
nauseant nau·se·ant (nô’zē-ənt, -zhē-, -sē-, -shē-)
adj.
Inducing nausea or vomiting.
nau’se·ant n.
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