How to Use chlorpromazine in a Sentence

chlorpromazine

noun

• The drug is chlorpromazine, which has also been used to treat psychotic disorders.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 23 July 2022
• Those doctors offered an acid reducer for his stomach and more chlorpromazine.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 20 July 2017
• In the early 1950s, psychiatrists began treating schizophrenia with a new drug called chlorpromazine.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2020
• The drug chlorpromazine, an anti-psychotic medication, was found in her system.
  — Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 15 Sep. 2021
• And last year, scientists working with mouse brain cells found that the anti-malaria drug quinacrine and the anti-psychotic drug chlorpromazine interfered with the ability of prions to cause normal brain protein to misfold.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2017
• By 1960, doctors had the first drug that could effectively blunt psychosis — chlorpromazine, brand name Thorazine — giving tens of thousands of residents a chance to live independently.
  — Benedict Carey, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
• The drug chlorpromazine, an antipsychotic medication, was found in her system.
  — Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• Research suggests that chlorpromazine is the most likely to cause seizures among typical antipsychotics while clozapine is most likely among atypicals.
  — Kimberly Truong, SELF, 7 Dec. 2018
• First-generation antipsychotics include chlorpromazine, haloperidol, perphenazine, and fluphenazine, the NIMH says.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 30 Nov. 2018
• Or the life-saving psychiatric medication chlorpromazine, now known as Thorazine, created in 1951.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 13 June 2022
• Anti-nausea drugs like chlorpromazine, metoclopramide, or prochlorperazine can help treat nausea and vomiting symptoms.
  — Sara Gaynes Levy, SELF, 17 Nov. 2021
• One of those drugs, the antipsychotic chlorpromazine, had been shown in laboratory experiments to prevent the coronavirus from multiplying.
  — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2021
• Looking back, the purely unexpected discovery of lithium, chlorpromazine (the first antipsychotic drug) and several antidepressants around the 1950s promised rapid therapeutic progress.
  — Dr. Claes Wahlestedt, miamiherald, 6 June 2017
• Drugs that may cause a problem include barbiturates, benzodiazepines, chlorpromazine, reserpine, and tricyclic antidepressants.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024