brompheniramine

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

noun Pharmacology.

a substance, C16H19BrN2, used as an antihistamine in the management of various allergies, as hay fever.

Origin of brompheniramine

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