n. An antimalarial drug with the chemical formula C17H16F6N2O, used for the prevention and treatment of malaria
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n. an antimalarial drug (trade name Larium and Mephaquine) that is effective in cases that do not respond to chloroquine; said to produce harmful neuropsychiatric effects on some people
Word Usage
"But a strain of cerebral malaria resistant to mefloquine is now on the offensive."