Relating to or preventing vomiting, especially referring to something that occurs before or prevents nausea and vomiting.
From 'ante-' (before) + 'emetic' (from Greek 'emetikos' meaning causing vomiting, from 'eein' to vomit). Contrasts with 'emetic' which causes vomiting.
Modern medicine flipped an ancient concept—doctors used to *cause* vomiting to cure people, but antemetics stop it before it starts, showing how science inverted folk remedies.
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