fluphenazine

American

[floo-fen-uh-zeen] / fluˈfɛn əˌzin /

noun

Pharmacology.

a potent tranquilizer, C 22 H 26 F 3 N 3 OS, derived from phenothiazine and used in various forms for the management of certain neurological or psychotic disorders and for short-term treatment of acute anxiety.

Etymology

Origin of fluphenazine

First recorded in 1955–60; flu(oro)- + phenazine

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In 2009, Isabell Werth, a German multigold medallist, was banned for doping her horse with fluphenazine, a sedative used in the treatment of schizophrenia.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016

Thorazine and related drugs such as haloperidol, fluphenazine and thiothixene soon eclipsed the brutal treatments previously in vogue: lobotomy, primitive electroshock and artificially induced insulin shock.

From Time Magazine Archive

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