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syrup of ipecac

n. liquid medicine made from a flowering plant, ''Psychotria ipecacuanha'', used as an emetic; ipecac

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Syrup of ipecac

Syrup of ipecac , commonly referred to as ipecac, is a drug that was once used as a cough syrup and to induce vomiting. It is obtained from the dried rhizome and roots of Carapichea ipecacuanha from which it derives its name.

Usage examples of "syrup of ipecac".

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.