tacrine

English

Noun

tacrine (uncountable)

1. A parasympathomimetic anticholinesterase, one of the first approved for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
   • 2007 February 8, Jeremy Pearce, “Leon J. Thal, Neurologist Who Led Study for Alzheimer’s Drugs, Dies at 62”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     In the 1980s, Dr. Thal, a neurologist, helped lead successful clinical trials of tacrine, a cholinesterase inhibitor drug that was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1993.

Anagrams

• Certain, Cretian, ant rice, cantier, ceratin, certain, creatin, crinate, nacrite, tercian