As nouns the difference between metic and emetic
is that
metic is in ancient greece, a resident alien who did not have citizen rights and who paid a tax for the right to live there while
emetic is an agent that induces vomiting.
As an adjective emetic is
(medicine) causing nausea and vomiting.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
metic English
Noun
( en noun)
In ancient Greece, a resident alien who did not have citizen rights and who paid a tax for the right to live there.
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emetic English
Alternative forms
* emetick (obsolete)
Adjective
( en adjective)
(medicine) causing nausea and vomiting
Noun
( en noun)
an agent that induces vomiting
Synonyms
* (an agent that induces vomiting) vomitive, vomitory
Related terms
* emesis
* emetology
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