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pri⋅ma⋅quine

  [prahy-muh-kween]
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–noun Pharmacology.
a viscous liquid, C1 5H2 1N3O, used in the treatment of malaria.
Origin:
1945–50; < NL prīma prime + quin(olin)e
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Main Entry: pri·ma·quine
Pronunciation: 'prI-m&-"kwEn, 'prim-&-, -kwin
Function: noun
: an antimalarial drugC15H21N3O used in the form of its diphosphate
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primaquine

synthetic drug used in the treatment of malaria, an infection caused by the protozoan parasite Plasmodium transmitted to humans by the bite of various species of Anopheles mosquitoes. Introduced into medicine in the 1950s, primaquine is one of an important series of chemically related antimalarial agents, the quinoline derivatives. It is administered orally as primaquine phosphate.

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