dantrolene

[dan-truh-leen]

dan·tro·lene

[dan-truh-leen]
noun Pharmacology.
a toxic orange powder, C14H10N4O5, used to control muscle spasms, as in the treatment of local trauma, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, or other neurological disorders.

Origin:
dantrol-, contracted from letters of the chemical name + -ene
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Dantrolene is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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