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- n a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting
- Judge Woolsey decided that its purpler passages are "emetic," rather than "aphrodisiac"; that the net effect of its 768 big pages is "a somewhat tragic and very powerful .
- But the film's carnage is emetic, not exploitative.
- The word on our oncology floors is that pot's a pretty good appetite stimulant and anti-emetic.