mepacrine
/ (ˈmɛpəkrɪn) /
noun
British
a drug, mepacrine dihydrochloride, one of the first synthetic substitutes for quinine, formerly widely used to treat malaria but now largely replaced by chloroquine. Formula: C 23 H 30 ClN 3 O.2HCl.2H 2 O
US name: quinacrine
Word Origin for mepacrine
C20: from
me (
thyl) +
pa (
ludism +
a)
cr (
id)
ine
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mephistopheles,
mephitic,
mephitis