mepacrine
- noun
- /ˈmɛpəˌkriːn/
- Specialized
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mepacrina
- Doctors sometimes recommend mepacrine for certain parasitic worm infections.
Examples
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British Army forces conducted therapeutic trials in England, West Africa, and Southeast Command, comparing quinine, atabrine (which the British called mepacrine), and plasmochin (which they called pamaquine).
Academic text (1994) -
The only way to insure a man's escape is to see that he has the mepacrine to keep him going.
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I'll take all the salt and mepacrine you want.
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Food, and what's more important, mepacrine.
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The ities make no mepacrine.
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Mepacrine, also known as mepacrine, was once commonly prescribed to treat malaria in soldiers.
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Before the development of more effective medications, mepacrine was a popular treatment for malaria.
Synonyms
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A medicine that treats worm infections and was used for malaria
A medicine used to treat malaria and some worm infections
A medicine for worm infections once used to treat malaria
Surface Forms
Morphology
mepacrine = mepacr + ine
Although the suffix '-ine' marks a chemical/drug name, the root 'mepacr' is not a recognizable English base, so the meaning of the drug is not derivable from its parts.
Etymology
The word mepacrine gets its name from the chemical ending -acrine, which is related to the English word 'acrid' meaning 'bitter'. So a helpful way to remember mepacrine is as a bitter medicine once used to treat malaria and some worm infections.