brompheniramine

[ brohm-fuh-neer-uh-meen, -min ]

noun

, Pharmacology.

1. a substance, C 16 H 19 BrN 2 , used as an antihistamine in the management of various allergies, as hay fever.

Word History and Origins

Origin of brompheniramine¹

Presumably coined from contraction of the component names bromophenyl, pyridinepropanamine; bromo-, phenyl, pyridine, propane, -amine