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Thioridazine
Medical Definition: | A phenothiazine antipsychotic used in the management of psychoses, including schizophrenia, and in the control of severely disturbed or agitated behavior. It has little antiemetic activity. Thioridazine has a higher incidence of antimuscarinic effects, but a lower incidence of extrapyramidal symptoms, than CHLORPROMAZINE. (From Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 30th ed, p618) | |
Also Called: | Meleril,Sonapax,Thioridazine Hydrochloride | |
CAS Type 1 Name: | CAS Number: | 50-52-2 |
Thioridazine Medical Definitions and Terms
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