tryparsamide

American  

[trih-pahr-suh-mahyd, -mid] / trɪˈpɑr səˌmaɪd, -mɪd /

noun

Pharmacology.

1. a white, crystalline powder, C 8 H 10 O 4 N 2 AsNa½H 2 , used chiefly in treating African sleeping sickness.

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tryparsamide British  

/ trɪˈpɑːsəmaɪd /

noun

1. a synthetic crystalline compound of arsenic used in the treatment of trypanosomal and other protozoan infections. Formula: C 8 H 10 AsN 2 O 4 Na. 1/ 2 H 2 O

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Etymology

Origin of tryparsamide

First recorded in 1900–05; formerly a trademark

Example Sentences

There is no vaccine against sleeping sickness, but the powerful arsenic drug tryparsamide, which kills syphilis spirochetes, also kills the trypanosomes of sleeping sickness.

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Dr. Pearce took tryparsamide to the Belgian Congo in 1920.

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When the vitamin was given to a number of tryparsamide "shock victims" whose eyes were already failing, they reported a quick and remarkable improvement.

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Developed in the Rockefeller Institute in 1919, and introduced to Africa by Dr. Louise Pearce in the '20s, tryparsamide clears up sleeping sickness in three to six months when injected twice a week.

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Last week in Chicago, Dr. William Mabley Muncy of Providence, R. I. suggested to his colleagues of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology a way of taking the blinding curse off tryparsamide.

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