chlorpromazine
English
Etymology
French chloropromazine, corresponding to chlor- + prom(eth)azine.
Pronunciation
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Noun
chlorpromazine (countable and uncountable, plural chlorpromazines)
- A synthetic drug used as a tranquillizer, sedative, and antiemetic. It is a phenothiazine derivative.
- Synonym: aminazine
- 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001), page 59:
- In the early 1950s two French physicians, J. Delay and P. Deniker, noted the remarkable calming effects of a new drug, chlorpromazine, which was initially tested as an agent to be given to patients prior to major surgery to relax them.
References
- “chlorpromazine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “chlorpromazine”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.