Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A drug, C17H19ClN2S, derived from phenothiazine and used to suppress vomiting and as a sedative and a tranquilizer, especially in the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic states.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a drug derived from phenothiazine and used as a sedative and tranquilizer.
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- noun A
tranquillizing drug , C17H19ClN2S, used in the treatment ofschizophrenia etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a drug (trade name Thorazine) derived from phenothiazine that has antipsychotic effects and is used as a sedative and tranquilizer
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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At the time of this advert, drugs like Thorazine also known by its generic name chlorpromazine were marketed as major tranquillisers.
Mind Hacks: A visual history of pharmaceutical drug ads 2006
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At the time of this advert, drugs like Thorazine also known by its generic name chlorpromazine were marketed as major tranquillisers.
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Neuroleptic drugs (such as chlorpromazine) have their effect on the brain almost immediately, but they take weeks to affect the behaviour of the patients.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows psychexchange.co.uk@slideshare.net(psychexchange.c 2010
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Do not use Phenergan if you have severe asthma, emphysema, or other breathing problem, or if you are allergic to Phenergan or other phenothiazines such as chlorpromazine (Thorazine), fluphenazine
Wii-volution 2010
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Neuroleptic drugs (such as chlorpromazine) have their effect on the brain almost immediately, but they take weeks to affect the behaviour of the patients.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows psychexchange.co.uk@slideshare.net(psychexchange.c 2010
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Lost my sister to chlorpromazine and the Electra complex
Jump Shots Frank Rasky 2011
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Fortunately for them, Roland Kuhn, who ran an asylum in Switzerland, was just then getting tired of paying top dollar for chlorpromazine.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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The psychiatric implications of such a drug were obvious, and soon French doctors were using a particularly strong phenothiazine—RP4560, or chlorpromazine—on their psychotic mostly schizophrenic patients.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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It was as if chlorpromazine had tamed their inner demons sufficiently to allow them to reenter the world.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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At first, chlorpromazine was administered as an adjunct to a shock treatment popular in France—packing psychotic patients in ice, on the theory that the drug enhanced the hibernation effect, which allegedly cured patients by putting them in a somnolent state.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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