meprobamate

American  

[muh-proh-buh-meyt, mep-roh-bam-eyt] / məˈproʊ bəˌmeɪt, ˌmɛp roʊˈbæm eɪt /

noun

Pharmacology.

1. a white powder, C 9 H 1 8 N 2 O 4 , used in medicine chiefly as a tranquilizer for treating anxiety, tension, and skeletal muscle spasm.

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meprobamate British  

/ ˌmɛprəʊˈbæmeɪt, məˈprəʊbəˌmeɪt /

noun

1. a white bitter powder used as a hypnotic. Formula: C 9 H 18 N 2 O 4

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Etymology

Origin of meprobamate

First recorded in 1950–55; me(thyl) + pro(pyl) + (car)bamate

Example Sentences

Equagesic is a combination of aspirin and meprobamate.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022

Within a year, it was the best-selling drug in America, and by the close of the fifties one in every three prescriptions written in the United States was for meprobamate.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019

Justice Department charged that two of them had conspired to monopolize the $40 million-a-year market for meprobamate, better known as Miltown or Equanil.

From Time Magazine Archive

By December, Daiichi Seiyaku was on the market with its own brand of meprobamate, called Atraxin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Developed by Wallace Labs' Dr. Frank M. Berger from a muscle-relaxing drug which had some incidental calming effect, meprobamate was not generally released until last summer.

From Time Magazine Archive