bretylium

[ bruh-til-ee-uhm ]

nounPharmacology.
  1. a substance, C18H24BrNO3S, used to treat acute ventricular arrhythmias and suppress ventricular fibrillation.

Origin of bretylium

1
Presumably br(omobenzyl) + (dim)et(h)yl(ammon)ium, two of its chemical components

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