Custom Search. Jicama, also known as yam bean, is a round, fleshy taproot vegetable of bean family plants. Its underground starchy root is one of the popular edible tuber-vegetables grown in many parts of Central American, South Asian, Caribbean, and some Andean South American regions.
Medical diagnosis (abbreviated DS or Dx) is the process of determining which disease or condition explains a person's symptoms and signs.
Barrow boy. 1 vote Vote for this answer. On a prescription the symbol Rx (or R) stands for the word Recipe, meaning (in Latin) 'to take.'. Now in pharmacological contexts like catalogs, the symbol Rx indicates that a drug or medicine is not free to buy, but has to be prescribed by a certified physician.he traditional RX symbol cannot be represented on a typewriter keyboard. It consists of an R and an X which are merged to resemble an R with an extension of the right leg of the R with a stroke across it (I hope that makes sense).