amrinone
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of amrinone
Perhaps am(ino-) + (py)ri(di)none components of its chemical name; pyridine, -one
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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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