fluphenazine

[ floo-fen-uh-zeen ]

nounPharmacology.
  1. a potent tranquilizer, C22H26F3N3OS, derived from phenothiazine and used in various forms for the management of certain neurological or psychotic disorders and for short-term treatment of acute anxiety.

Origin of fluphenazine

1
First recorded in 1955–60; flu(oro)- + phenazine

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