isocarboxazid

[ ahy-soh-kahr-bok-suh-zid ]

nounPharmacology.
  1. a potent monoamine oxidase inhibitor, C12H13N3O2, used to treat severe depression.

Origin of isocarboxazid

1
1955–60; isocarbox- contraction and rearrangement of isoxazolylcarbonyl a component + (hydr)az(ine) + -id3

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