tryparsamide

[ trih-pahr-suh-mahyd, -mid ]

noun

, Pharmacology.

1. a white, crystalline powder, C 8 H 10 O 4 N 2 AsNa·½H 2 , used chiefly in treating African sleeping sickness.

tryparsamide

/ trɪˈpɑːsəmaɪd /

noun

1. a synthetic crystalline compound of arsenic used in the treatment of trypanosomal and other protozoan infections. Formula: C 8 H 10 AsN 2 O 4 Na. 1 2 H 2 O

Word History and Origins

Origin of tryparsamide¹

First recorded in 1900–05; formerly a trademark

Word History and Origins

Origin of tryparsamide¹

C20: from a trademark

Example Sentences

In 1915, they found tryparsamide.

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Dr. Pearce took tryparsamide to the Belgian Congo in 1920.

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Tryparsamide has one tremendous drawback: it sometimes injures, sometimes destroys, the optic nerve, produces flickering vision, a narrow range of sight, even blindness.

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He had done it with a good old standby: vitamin B. Well knowing that vitamin B is essential for healthy nerves, Dr. Muncy bolstered up 50 neurosyphilitics with various forms of vitamin B before they got their routine tryparsamide injections.

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Last week in Chicago, Dr. William Mabley Muncy of Providence, R. I. suggested to his colleagues of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology a way of taking the blinding curse off tryparsamide.

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