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chlorpromazine

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Chemical structure of chlorpromazine

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

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chlorpromazine (countable and uncountable, plural chlorpromazines)

  1. (pharmacology) A synthetic drug used as a tranquillizer, sedative, and antiemetic. It is a phenothiazine derivative.
    Synonyms: aminazine, (trade name) Largactil, (trade name) Thorazine
    • 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, 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.

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