tacrine

English

Noun

tacrine (uncountable)

A parasympathomimetic anticholinesterase, one of the first approved for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
- 2007 February 8, Jeremy Pearce, “Leon J. Thal, Neurologist Who Led Study for Alzheimer’s Drugs, Dies at 62”, in New York Times‎:
  In the 1980s, Dr. Thal, a neurologist, helped lead successful clinical trials of tacrine, a cholinesterase inhibitor drug that was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1993.

Anagrams

Certain, Cretian, ant rice, cantier, ceratin, certain, creatin, crinate, nacrite, tercian

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