Crossword clues for ipecac
ipecac
- Simple scratch oddly missing - it makes you sick
- Medicinal shrub
- Drug-yielding plant
- Common emetic
- Syrup for a poisoning victim
- Syrup used after some poisonings
- Drug for a poison victim
- Commonly used emetic
- Vomit inducer
- This just makes you want to throw up
- Syrup used to purge accidentally-swallowed poison
- Root-based syrup for a poisoning victim
- Purgative syrup
- Poison-treating plant
- Poison antidote, maybe
- Poison antidote syrup
- Old treatment for poisonings
- It'll make you upchuck
- Expectorant drug
- Emetic agent
- Dried root from a plant of the madder family
- Dover's powder ingredient
- Creeping S. A. plant
- Cough medicine ingredient
- Medicinal plant
- Poison remedy
- Medicinal syrup
- Emetic root
- Drug for a poison victim, maybe
- Drug used to treat poisoning
- Syrup in the medicine cabinet
- Syrup of ___
- Drug for a poisoning victim
- Drug used in aversion therapy
- Poison victim's remedy
- A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning)
- Drug made from dried roots
- Source of emetine
- Creeping S.A. plant
- Medicinal root
- S.A. shrub
- Emetic drug
- Plant of the madder family
- Melting icecap that's hard to stomach
- Crushed ice pack not quite what the doctor ordered?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ipecac \Ip"e*cac\ ([i^]p"[-e]*k[a^]k), n. An abbreviation of Ipecacuanha, and in more frequent use.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1710, borrowing via Portuguese of a shortened form of Tupi ipecacuana (a word attested in English from 1682), a medicinal plant of Brazil. The Indian word is said to mean "small plant causing vomit."
Wiktionary
n. 1 The plant ipecacuanha (''Psychotria ipecacuanha'') or its root. 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrup%20of%20ipecac, produced from this plant's root, used to induce emesis (vomiting).
WordNet
n. a medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning)
Wikipedia
Ipecac is the third studio album by the experimental rock composer Zoogz Rift, released in 1984 by Snout Records.
Ipecac may refer to:
- Syrup of ipecac, an emetic drug
- Carapichea ipecacuanha, the plant from which syrup of ipecac is derived
- Ipecac Recordings, an American record label
Usage examples of "ipecac".
I was immediately put on sulfadiazine for the shigella and emetine, an alkaloid of ipecac used to destroy the parasitic amoeba.
Emetin, the active principle of ipecac, which has been successfully used in amebic dysentery, is now employed in the treatment of this trouble.
Williard was always afraid that one day he would confuse bottles and mix in ipecac or eugenol by mistake, but so far, he never had.
The after quarters contained one latrine, unbearably foul, and if each missionary occupied it for only fifteen minutes at a time, which was not excessive in their condition, five and a half hours were automatically consumed, and the day was half spent with no time allocated for emergency cases on the part of those who in extreme desperation had taken a master dose or ipecac, rhubarb, calomel and castor oil, all together.
Down that ipecac went, not only once, but many times during the long, anxious night when the two little girls worked patiently over the suffering Minnie May, and Young Mary Joe, honestly anxious to do all she could, kept up a roaring fire and heated more water than would have been needed for a hospital of croupy babies.
So the dreadfully constipated missionaries took ipecac and rhubarb and calomel and castor oil.
Just to feed him a mixture of water, iodine, pepper oil, ipecac root, and some slightly raunchy mayonnaise we had pilfered from yesterday's breakfast and let sit out in the sun?
Then, when the motorcade arrived, they drank Syrup of Ipecac and puked big Red, White, and Blue barf puddles all over the hotel.
For example, Syrup of ipecac is used when someone has eaten poison.
Probably they had given her syrup of ipecac, which makes you keep throwing up until you can feel the sides of your stomach banging together.