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–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.
Also called antimony potassium tartrate, potassium antimonyl tartrate.

Origin:
1695–1705
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tartar emetic  
n.  A poisonous crystalline compound, K(SbO)C4H4O6· 1/2 H2O, used in medicine as an expectorant and in the treatment of parasitic infections, such as schistosomiasis.
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Main Entry: tartar emetic
Function: noun
: a poisonous efflorescent crystalline saltKSbOC4H4O6·1/2H2O of sweetish metallic taste that is used in dyeing as a mordant and in medicine as an expectorant, in thetreatment of amebiasis, and formerly as an emetic called also antimony potassium tartrate, potassium antimonyltartrate, tartrated antimony
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tartar emetic n.
A poisonous crystalline compound used in medicine as an expectorant and in the treatment of parasitic infections, such as schistosomiasis.

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