Antabuse

American

[an-tuh-byoos, -byooz] / ˈæn təˌbjus, -ˌbjuz /

Pharmacology, Trademark.

a brand of disulfiram.

Antabuse British

/ ˈæntəˌbjuːs /

noun

a drug, a brand of disulfiram, used in the treatment of alcoholism, that acts by inducing nausea and other unpleasant symptoms following ingestion of alcohol; tetraethylthiuram disulphide

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Antabuse

It may have been an early form of Antabuse.

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