primaquine
- noun
- /ˈpraɪməˌkwin/
- Specialized
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primaquina
- To effectively treat malaria, the doctor recommended that I take primaquine after my initial therapy.
Examples
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Doctors often prescribe primaquine to patients who need to eliminate dormant malaria parasites in their liver.
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In industrialized countries, improved clinical and microbiological control after treatment and radical cure with primaquine can be achieved for malaria.
Academic text (2014) -
The great American effort to find antimalarials succeeded only at the very end of that war with the development of chloroquine and, later on, primaquine (first used during the Korean conflict).
Academic text (1992) -
During the research, scientists discovered that primaquine plays a critical role in preventing malaria relapses.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Primaquine mixes prima- (meaning 'first') with -quine, like in quinine, the famous antimalarial, so you can think of it as a 'first' quinine-like medicine. That's why primaquine is a drug used to treat malaria and stop the disease from coming back.
