1) Dried root of a mexican vine 2) Dried root of Mexican plant 3) Dried root used as a drug 4) Mexican cathartic 5) Mexican drug-producing plant 6) Vine-root resin
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Jalap is a cathartic drug, its use largely archaic in the West, consisting of the tuberous roots of Ipomoea purga, a convolvulaceous plant growing on the eastern declivities of the Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico at an elevation of 5000 to 8000 ft. above sea level, more especially about the neighbourhood of Chiconquiaco on the eastern slope of the...
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• (n.) The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipomoea purga (or Exogonium purga), a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative medicines. Other species of Ipomoea yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the I. Orizabensis, and I. tuberosa.
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(from the article `Ipomoea`) ...are enlarged food-storage portions of the roots. Its leaves are oval to lobed, and the 5-cm (2-inch) flowers are pink to rose violet. It probably ...
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<medicine> The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipomoea purga (or Exogonium purga), a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative medicines. Other species of Ipomoea yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the I. Orizabensis, and I. Tuberosa. False jalap, the root of ...
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Jal'ap noun [ French, from Spanish
jalapa ; -- so called from
Jalapa , a town in Mexico, whence it was first obtained.]
(Medicine) The tubers of the Mexican plant
Ipomœa purga (or
Exogonium purga ), a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, ...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: jal′ap Definitions: 1. The dried tuberous root of Exogonium purga, E. jalapa, or Ipomoea purga (family Convolvulaceae); used as a cathartic.
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