Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A phenothiazine drug, C20H24ClN3S, used to treat schizophrenia and anxiety and to stop or prevent vomiting.
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- noun A
potent antipsychotic drug of thephenothiazine class.
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- noun antipsychotic and antiemetic drug used to treat schizophrenia and to combat nausea and vomiting
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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For the nausea, patients would also take an anti-emetic such as prochlorperazine (Compazine).
Let's Live Healthier 2007
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* Antiemetics (drugs that prevent or lessen nausea and vomiting such as prochlorperazine and promethazine) * Antihistamines such as diphenhydramine
unknown title 2009
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* Antiemetics (drugs that prevent or lessen nausea and vomiting such as prochlorperazine and promethazine) * Antihistamines such as diphenhydramine
unknown title 2009
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In one case, a Medicare patient filled a prescription for a 90-day supply, or 270 pills, of the generic antinausea medication prochlorperazine.
Could Generic Drugs Be Even Cheaper Without The Middle Man? - The Consumerist 2008
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In one case, a patient filled a prescription for a 90-day supply, or 270 pills, of the generic antinausea medication prochlorperazine.
Medicare Moves 2008
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Drugs recently in short supply include paclitaxel, which is used most notably to treat breast cancer but also is effective against ovarian, lung and gastric cancers; the anti-nausea drug prochlorperazine; electrolytes used by patients fed intravenously; and Doxil, a breast and ovarian cancer drug with such tight supplies that many patients are on waiting lists.
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When the cancer drug prochlorperazine disappeared, pharmacists, physicians and patients made a fuss.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed André Picard 2011
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Alexza has completed an end-of-Phase 2 meeting with the FDA for AZ-001 (Staccato prochlorperazine) and has completed two Phase 2 studies with AZ-104 (Staccato loxapine, low-dose).
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They included Diazepam, hydrocodone, oxycodone, ondansetron and prochlorperazine, with the patient names and doctor names blackened out, the affidavit said.
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They included diazepam, hydrocodone, oxycodone, ondansetron and prochlorperazine, with the patient names and doctor names blackened out, the affidavit said.
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