chlorpromazine
1 synonym for chlorpromazine, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A synthetic antipsychotic drug, with the chemical formula C₁₇H₁₉ClN₂S.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
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Etymology
Borrowed from French chloropromazine; by surface analysis it is chlor- plus promazine. First recorded in the 1950s.
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