quinacrine

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quinacrine (countable and uncountable, plural quinacrines)

  1. A drug with various applications, including as an antimalarial, having the chemical formula C23H30ClN3O.
    • 1963, Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease, Penguin Classics (2010), page 83:
      ‘He said the poor man must be suffering from malaria, and the next day he bought him a tube of quinacrine.’

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