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amrinone

[ am-ruh-nohn ]

noun

, Pharmacology.
  1. a potent substance, C 10 H 9 N 3 O, used in the treatment of congestive heart failure.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of amrinone1

Perhaps am(ino-) + (py)ri(di)none components of its chemical name; pyridine, -one
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Example Sentences

Among those milling about the kitchen were Peter Wilmshurst, the British cardiologist who in 1986 had blown the whistle on Sterling-Winthrop, a drug company which had tried to suppress his negative findings about the cardiac drug amrinone.

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