Ipecac in a sentence

Ipecac meaning

1. The dried rhizome and roots of either of two tropical American plants (Cephaelis acuminata and Cephaelis ipecacuanha) of the madder family used especially as a source of emetine.
2. An emetic and expectorant drug that contains emetine and is prepared from ipecac especially as a syrup for use in treating accidental poisoning.
3. The shrub that produces ipecac (Cephaelis ipecacuanha), native to Brazil and cultivated elsewhere.

Using Ipecac

• The main meaning on this page is: The dried rhizome and roots of either of two tropical American plants (Cephaelis acuminata and Cephaelis ipecacuanha) of the madder family used especially as a source of emetine. | An emetic and expectorant drug that contains emetine and is prepared from ipecac especially as a syrup for use in treating accidental poisoning. | The shrub that produces ipecac (Cephaelis ipecacuanha), native to Brazil and cultivated elsewhere.
• Useful related words include: emetic, vomit, vomitive, nauseant.

Context around Ipecac

• Average sentence length in these examples: 16 words
• Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 1 end
• Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

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Corpus analysis for Ipecac

• In this selection, "ipecac" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 16 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
• Around the word, induced and cathartics stand out and add context to how "ipecac" is used.
• Recognizable usage signals include irrigation or ipecac induced emesis and money on ipecac. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
• By corpus frequency, "ipecac" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.