chlorpromazine

IPA: kɫˈɔrproʊmʌzin

A synthetic drug used as a tranquillizer, sedative, and antiemetic. It is a phenothiazine derivative.

Examples of "chlorpromazine" in Sentences

Lost my sister to chlorpromazine and the Electra complex
It was as if chlorpromazine had tamed their inner demons sufficiently to allow them to reenter the world.
At the time of this advert, drugs like Thorazine also known by its generic name chlorpromazine were marketed as major tranquillisers.
Fortunately for them, Roland Kuhn, who ran an asylum in Switzerland, was just then getting tired of paying top dollar for chlorpromazine.
Neuroleptic drugs (such as chlorpromazine) have their effect on the brain almost immediately, but they take weeks to affect the behaviour of the patients.
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
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.
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.