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PRIMAQUINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does primaquine mean?
• PRIMAQUINE (noun)
The noun PRIMAQUINE has 1 sense:
1. synthetic antimalarial drug
Familiarity information: PRIMAQUINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Synthetic antimalarial drug
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("primaquine" is a kind of...):
antimalarial; antimalarial drug (a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria)
Context examples
Treatment is the same, with a combination of antimalarials such as chloroquine and primaquine.
(Human malaria spread from monkeys found in Brazil, SciDev.Net)
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