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perphenazine

perphenazine

9.8
A medicine doctors use to treat serious mental problems and sometimes stop vomiting
  • noun
  • /ˌpɜrˈfɛnəˌzin/
  • Specialized
translation icon : perfenazina
  • The doctor prescribed perphenazine to help manage her anxiety and improve her mood.

Examples

  • Well, anyway, she's got me on some medications - um, perphenazine, and, uh, I don't - I don't remember.

    V/H/S (2012)

  • After starting perphenazine, he noticed a significant reduction in his nausea during treatments.

  • She felt more at ease after taking perphenazine, as it acted as a calming antidepressant.

Synonyms

antidepressant
vsperphenazine
  • Specialized
61 3.4

A medicine that treats depression by changing chemicals in the brain

adds calming and antiemetic uses beyond treating depression
antidepressant drug
vsperphenazine
  • Specialized
3 3.2

A medicine that treats depression by changing chemicals in the brain

is also used to calm patients and sometimes to relieve vomiting
Triavil
vsperphenazine
  • Specialized
9.9

A medicine that contains a calming drug and a medicine for depression sometimes used to stop vomiting in adults

is the generic chemical name rather than the brand form

Surface Forms

perphenazine singular
perphenazines plural

Etymology

Perphenazine joins the part per- (meaning 'through' or 'completely') with phenazine, the name of the chemical group the drug comes from. So the name tells you it is a medicine of that chemical type used to calm serious mental symptoms and sometimes to ease severe nausea.