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Chlorpromazine

//klɔːˈpɹəʊ.məz.ɪn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A synthetic drug used as a tranquillizer, sedative, and antiemetic. It is a phenothiazine derivative. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    a drug (trade name Thorazine) derived from phenothiazine that has antipsychotic effects and is used as a sedative and tranquilizer wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French chloropromazine, corresponding to chlor- + prom(eth)azine.

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