Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A drug, C17H17ClF6N2O, used mainly for the treatment and prevention of chloroquine-resistant malaria.

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  • noun An antimalarial drug with the chemical formula C17H16F6N2O, used for the prevention and treatment of malaria

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  • noun an antimalarial drug (trade name Larium and Mephaquine) that is effective in cases that do not respond to chloroquine; said to produce harmful neuropsychiatric effects on some people

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[me(thyl) + fl(uoro)– + (chlor)oquine.]

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Examples

  • But a strain of cerebral malaria resistant to mefloquine is now on the offensive.

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  • But a strain of cerebral malaria resistant to mefloquine is now on the offensive.

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  • His father, Mike Kuligowski, attributes his son's sleeplessness and depression to an anti-malarial medication called mefloquine that was found in his system.

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  • He'd been taking Lariam, a drug also known as mefloquine, that the Army gave him to prevent malaria.

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  • His father, Mike Kuligowski, attributes his son's sleeplessness and depression to an anti-malarial medication called mefloquine that was found in his system.

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  • His father, Mike Kuligowski, attributes his son's sleeplessness and depression to an anti-malarial medication called mefloquine that was found in his system.

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  • His father, Mike Kuligowski, attributes his son's sleeplessness and depression to an anti-malarial medication called mefloquine that was found in his system.

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