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center, in politics, a party following a middle course. The term was first used in France in 1789, when the moderates of the National Assembly sat in the center of the hall. It can refer to a separate party in a political system, e.g., the Catholic Center party of imperial and Weimar Germany, or to the middle group of a party consisting of several ideological factions.


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However, patients who are particularly susceptible to motion sickness also demonstrate increased responses to other vomiting center stimuli.
Direct stimulation of the vomiting center in the central nervous system by absorbed copper ions may occur with acute ingestion of highly soluble copper salts (17), suggesting that the emetic effect is a protective response.
 
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