ipecac
- n a medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning)
- Last week drug companies, Government officials and medical men were unable to explain the swelling demand for arnica, eyewash, ipecac and milk of magnesia.
- He prescribed a powder with opium (to make symptoms subside) and ipecac (to make a patient sweat and give him "a sense of progress").
- The result, which Franklin hopes to patent: a sleeping tablet with a built-in dose of that old emetic, ipecac.