Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sulfone drug, C12H12N2O2S, that is used primarily to treat leprosy and some forms of dermatitis.
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- noun antibacterial drug used to treat leprosy and some kinds of skin diseases
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Post reports that the wealth of information on the Internet has helped erode some of the stigma of the disease, which is easily treatable where the anti-leprosy drugs dapsone and rifampin are available.
Old myths about leprosy still around BA Haller 2008
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Caught early enough, leprosy can be cured today with the antibiotics dapsone, rifampicin, and clofazimine.
Matt Bivens: Cure Millions of Leprosy -- or Just Give Hank Paulson a Tax Break? 2009
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In October 2002, we submitted a regulatory application to the UK Medicines Control Agency (MCA) for Lapdap (chlorproguanil/dapsone) for the treatment of the most life threatening type of the malaria.
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· In the 1960s, M. leprae started to develop resistance to dapsone, the worlds only known anti-leprosy drug.
Chapter 2 1999
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· The first breakthrough occurred in the 1940s with the development of the drug dapsone, which arrested the disease.
Chapter 2 1999
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MDT consists of three drugs: dapsone, rifampicin and clofazimine.
Chapter 2 1999
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There are also studies on the combination of the short half-life antifolates, chloroproguanil and dapsone, and on pyronaridine, a Chinese synthetic compound.
Chapter 2 1998
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- If severe anaemia or leucopenia develops, stop treatment and replace dapsone with another
Chapter 4 1993
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Note: Although the cure of leprosy is quicker using dapsone together with other medicines, sometimes only dapsone is available.
Chapter 31 1993
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The best medicine is dapsone, if possible combined with rifampin and clofazimine.
Chapter 21 1993
hernesheir commented on the word dapsone
Nice etymology.
September 15, 2011