Prolixin Pharm.
(prəʊˈlɪksɪn)
A proprietary name in the U.S. for fluphenazine hydrochloride, C22H26F3N3OS.HCl, a phenothiazine derivative used as a tranquillizer.
| 1959 Dis. Nervous System XX. 170/2 The fluphenazine used in this study was supplied..under the trade name Prolixine [sic]. 1960 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 1 Mar. tm 8/2 Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, New York... Prolixin. For central nervous system depressant preparations. First use Sept. 18, 1959. 1972 A. Goth Med. Pharmacol. (ed. 6) xix. 217 The phenothiazine anti⁓emetics include chlorpromazine (Thorazine), fluphenazine dihydrochloride (Prolixin; Permitil), perphenazine (Trilafon), [etc.]. 1973 Black Panther 23 June 13/2 Do these drugs include Prolixin, a powerful mood stabilizer which includes side effects in from 50 to 100% of the cases that include pseudo-Parkinson's Disease—painful tremors and rigidity, restlessness (‘the prolixin shuffle’), muscle contractions, spasms of the back, neck and throat, [etc.]? |