meclozine
/ˈmɛkləziːn/(also meclizine) Pharmacology
noun
A piperazine derivative, C25H27ClN2, with antihistamine properties, used mainly as an anti-emetic, especially in preventing motion sickness.
- Meclozine is the International Nonproprietary Name and British Approved Name; meclizine is the name in the Pharmacopeia of the U.S.A..
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Journal of Pharmacological and Experimental Therapeutics. Apparently earliest as meclizine from me- + -clizine. In form meclozine perhaps remodelled after hydrochloride.
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