a drug derived from phenothiazine and used as a sedative and tranquilizer.

One of the phenothiazines, the generic term for one of the most widely prescribed anti-psychotic drugs, sold under the name Thorazine.

This tranquilizer relieves anxiety or agitation. Examples of brand names include Thorazine and Ormazine.

a Phenothiazine antipsychotic; prescribed for psychosis and depression with anxiety; brand names include Thorazine; Chlorpromazine side effects.

A powerful major tranquilizer that relieves the pain and nausea of migraine.

Marketed as Thorazine, it is a powerful sedative used in conjunction with hypnotics, analgesics and anesthetics.

See phenothiazines.

An antipsychotic agent with antiemetic, antiadrenergic, and anticholinergic actions. It depresses conditioned reflexes and reduces blood pressure.

3-chloro-10-(2-dimethylaminopropyl) phenothiazine. White or cream coloured powder; m.p. 194-197 degree Celcius. It is a major tranquilizer, also an antiemetic. The chlorine-free compound promazine, is widely used as a minor tranquilizer and as an adjunct to anaesthesia.

See antipsychotic drug.

Chlorpromazine was the first antipsychotic drug, used during the 1950s and 1960s. Used as chlorpromazine hydrochloride and sold under the tradenames Largactil® and Thorazine®, it has sedative, hypotensive and antiemetic properties as well as anticholinergic and antidopaminergic effects. It also has anxiolytic (alleviation of anxiety) properties.