Definition of "fluphenazine" []

• A derivative of phenothiazine, C22H26F3N3OS, used for the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. (noun)

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• "The pills she had been given were not, according to the chart, antimalaria medication but an antispasm drug called trihexyphenidyl hydrochloride, used to counter facial muscle spasms that can be a side effect of a powerful antipsychotic called fluphenazine that had been given to Kimwana in an injection."
• "F.F. was a 36 year old white married female with a schizoaffective disorder who presented to a hospital after an intentional ingestion of colchicine, fluphenazine, lorazepam, benztropine and ethanol."
• "Her records show that she took a variety of medications during that period, including, for a time, a large fifty-milligram dose of the antipsychotic fluphenazine every two weeks."