chlorpromazine
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Etymology[edit]
From French chloropromazine, corresponding to chlor- + prom(eth)azine.
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chlorpromazine (usually uncountable, plural chlorpromazines)
- A tranquillizing drug, C17H19ClN2S, used in the treatment of schizophrenia, etc.
- 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.
- 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001), page 59:
