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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 drugplay

  Familiarity information: PRIMAQUINE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PRIMAQUINE (noun)


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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