chloroquine
- noun
- /ˈklɔːrəˌkwin/
- Specialized
- P. ovale seems to remain sensitive to chloroquine and other antimalarial drugs.
- chloroquine treatment
- chloroquine resistance
- chloroquine-resistant
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Examples
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Provided there are no contraindications, chloroquine and proguanil have a long history of safety in pregnancy.
Academic text (2011) -
Despite the worldwide parasitic resistance to chloroquine, it has remained the drug of choice in the management of plasmodiasis.
Academic text (2007) -
Roughly half the patients in each group received chloroquine alone.
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The early reports of chloroquine resistance came out of East Africa and Asia.
Academic text (1992) -
There is only one report on the interaction of chloroquine with ethanol.
Academic text (2007) -
On the board's recommendation, the Army adopted chloroquine as the standard drug for malaria suppression and treatment in October 1947.
Academic text (1994) -
The antimalarials chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are also used to treat sarcoidosis.
Academic text (1998) -
P. vivax infections were treated with chloroquine 25 mg base/kg total dose over 3 days.
Academic text (2000) -
As African countries are reassessing their antimalarial drug policies, no clear alternative to chloroquine for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria has emerged.
Academic text (2002) -
The doctor prescribed chloroquine to treat the patient's malaria infection.
Synonyms
A medicine used to treat malaria and some diseases where the body attacks itself, like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis
Surface Forms
Morphology
chloroquine = quinine (semi-transparent) = chloro + quine
The combining form 'chloro-' signals a chlorine substituent, but the overall meaning (a specific antimalarial medication) is not predictable from the parts for an average learner.
Etymology
Chloroquine comes from chloro-, a part meaning 'green' that in chemistry shows 'chlorine', and -quine, from quinine, the old malaria medicine. So chloroquine is a drug made in a lab that is related to quinine and is used to treat malaria.