Tacrine

Full definition of tacrine

Noun

1. 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 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
• tercian