ALL meanings of tartar emetic
- noun tartar emetic (medicine) A poisonous salt, potassium antimonyl tartrate, used as an expectorant. 0
- noun tartar emetic antimony potassium tartrate, K(SbO)C4H4O6·1⁄2H2O, a poisonous, odorless, white salt used in medicine to cause expectoration, vomiting, and perspiration, and in dyeing as a mordant 0