Mepacrine
/ˈmɛpəkrɪn/
noun
1.
(Brit) a drug, mepacrine dihydrochloride, one of the first synthetic substitutes for quinine, formerly widely used to treat malaria but now largely replaced by chloroquine. Formula: C23H30ClN3O.2HCl.2H2O US name quinacrine
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