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chlorpromazine
1. A sedative drug used as a sedative and tranquilizing treatment of psychiatric disorders.
2. A phenothiazine (a compound used primarily in veterinary medicine to rid farm animals of internal parasites) used in the form of the base or the hydrochloride salt as an antipsychotic agent, antiemetic, and presurgical sedative, and in the treatment of intractable hiccups, acute intermittent porphyria (genetic abnormality of metabolism causing abdominal pains and mental confusion), tetanus, and the manic phase of bipolar disorder.
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