penicillamine

[ pen-uh-sil-uh-meen, -min ]

nounPharmacology.
  1. a chelating agent, C5H11NO2S, produced by the degradation of penicillin, used in the treatment of severe rheumatoid arthritis and in heavy metal poisoning.

Origin of penicillamine

1
First recorded in 1940–45; penicill(in) + -amine

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