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methenamine Pharm.|mɛˈθiːn-, məˈθɛnəmiːn| [f. methene + amine.] The name given to hexamethylenetetramine (s.v. hexa-) in the Pharmacopeia of the U.S.A.
1926Pharmacopeia U.S. 238 Methenamine. 1926Dispensatory U.S.A. (ed. 21) 695/2 Not only are there a large number of compounds of methenamine upon the market, but the official drug is sold under an almost innumerable number of trade names. 1948E. Pound Pisan Cantos (1949) lxxiv. 17 Methenamine eases the urine. 1951A. Grollman Pharmacol. & Therapeutics xxv. 526 Hexamethylenetetramine ((CH2)6N4), official as methenamine (U.S.P.) and hexamine (B.P.)..is of interest from its liberating formaldehyde in the course of its excretion in the urine. 1969J. H. Thompson in J. A. Bevan Essent. Pharmacol. xlix. 511 Methenamine mandelate is a mixture of methenamine and mandelic acid.., two old urinary antiseptic agents which today are rarely given separately. |