AMRINONE Definition & Meaning

amrinone

[ am-ruh-nohn ]

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noun

Pharmacology.

a potent substance, C 10 H 9 N 3 O, used in the treatment of congestive heart failure.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of amrinone¹

Perhaps am(ino-) + (py)ri(di)none components of its chemical name; pyridine, -one

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Among those milling about the kitchen were Peter Wilmshurst, the British cardiologist who in 1986 had blown the whistle on Sterling-Winthrop, a drug company which had tried to suppress his negative findings about the cardiac drug amrinone.

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