quinacrine

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quinacrine

noun quinacrines

countable, uncountable A drug with various applications, including as an antimalarial, having the chemical formula C₂₃H₃₀ClN₃O. ‘He said the poor man must be suffering from malaria, and the next day he bought him a tube of quinacrine.’
Similar: atabrine, atebrine, chinacrin, chinacrine, mepacrine

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@misc{quinacrine_2026,
  title = {quinacrine},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/quinacrine},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}