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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

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(Chem.)

A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.

emetine ‎(plural emetines)

A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.
- 2001 May 25, Neil F. Bence et al., “Impairment of the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System by Protein Aggregation”, in Science, volume 292, number 5521, DOI:10.1126/science.292.5521.1552, pages 1552-1555:
  After a 3-hour incubation with ALLN, cells were incubated with emetine in the presence (closed symbols) or absence (open symbols) of ALLN (10 µg/ml).

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