Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white crystalline powder, C8H10AsN2NaO4, used in the treatment of trypanosomiasis.
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- noun An
antiinfective drug .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[tryp(anosome) + ars(enic) + amide.]
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A few cases of psychosis following encephalitis have been treated with tryparsamide and a few cases of dementia præcox have been treated by the production of an aseptic meningitis by the intraspinal injection of sterile horse serum.
Biennial Report of the State Hospital at Raleigh, Raleigh, N.C., from July 1, 1924, to June 30, 1926. N.C. Raleigh 1926
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