Crossword clues for chlorpromazine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
chlorpromazine \chlorpromazine\ n. a drug derived from phenothiazine and used as a sedative and tranquilizer.
Wiktionary
n. A tranquillizing drug, C17H19ClN2S, used in the treatment of schizophrenia, etc.
WordNet
n. a drug (trade name Thorazine) derived from phenothiazine that has anti-psychotic effects and is used as a sedative and tranquilizer [syn: Thorazine]
Wikipedia
Chlorpromazine (CPZ), marketed under the trade names Thorazine and Largactil among others, is an antipsychotic medication. It is primarily used to treat psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. Other uses include the treatment of bipolar disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, nausea and vomiting, anxiety before surgery, and hiccups that do not improve following other measures. It can be given by mouth, by injection into a muscle, or into a vein.
Common side effects include movement problems, sleepiness, dry mouth, low blood pressure upon standing, and increased weight. Serious side effects may include the potentially permanent movement disorder tardive dyskinesia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, and low white blood cell levels. In older people with psychosis as a result of dementia it may increase the risk of dying. It is unclear if it is safe for use in pregnancy. Chlorpromazine is in the typical antipsychotic class. Its mechanism of action is not entirely clear but believed to be related to its ability as a dopamine antagonist. It also has anti-serotonergic and antihistaminergic properties.
Chlorpromazine was discovered in 1951 and was the first antipsychotic. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the most important medications needed in a basic health system. Its introduction has been labeled as one of the great advances in the history of psychiatry. It is available as a generic medication. The wholesale cost in the developing world is between US$0.02 and US$0.12 per day. In the United States it costs about US$2 per day.
Usage examples of "chlorpromazine".
York Times DRUG PERIL CLAIMED -Miarni Herald BIG PROFIT FOUND IN TRANQUILIZERS Chlorpromazine 6 Times Costlier in U.
In French drugstores, for example, fifty tablets of chlorpromazine cost fifty-one cents compared with three dollars and three cents in the United States.
This significance was weakened by the introduction that same year of another and even more effective tranquillizer, chlorpromazine, which does not possess this particular two-ring combination.
The barbiturates, hailed not so long ago as panaceas, have given place to Chlorpromazine, Reserpine, Frenquel and Miltown.
I said, placing the aspirin bottle back into the medicine chest, and successfully, it turned out, palming the small vial of chlorpromazine tablets as I drew my hand away.
Unfortunately, the chemical of the venom resembles chlorpromazine, a tranquilizer, if I remember correctly.
You were supposed to be my groundman that night, only you got zonked and forgot to bring the chlorpromazine tranquilizers, so I took a bad trip.
If Dr Mallo and all the staff were to leap out from the next doorway, if Rolf were to pin him to the wall and dislocate his shoulders again and all privileges, books and papers were taken away for ever, if he were made to subsist on nothing from now on but a regime of chlorpromazine and electric shocks, still it would have been worth it just to have experienced this short burst of true living.
I worked one semidissolved chlorpromazine tablet into my mouth and swallowed it.
York Times DRUG PERIL CLAIMED -Miarni Herald BIG PROFIT FOUND IN TRANQUILIZERS Chlorpromazine 6 Times Costlier in U.
When she'd first learned about it she'd dialed chlorpromazine and flupenthixol up from the kitchen pharm, and staggered around in a haze for days while Herman witheringly explained how she might have poisoned herself: Parkinson's was a not-unknown side effect of primitive neuroleptics.
Chlorpromazine, thioridazine, haloperidol, clozapine, di-azepam, alprazolam, lithium carbonate.