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📚 noun • entry_id 46161

chlorpromazine

/klɔːˈpɹəʊ.məz.ɪn/
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clorpromazina
A synthetic drug used as a tranquillizer, sedative, and antiemetic. It is a phenothiazine derivative.
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…
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