piperazine

piperazine
/pi per"euh zeen', -zin, puy-, pip"euhr euh-/, n. Chem.
1. Also called piperazidine /pip'euh raz"i deen', -din, puy'peuh-/. a colorless, crystalline, deliquescent ring compound, C4H10N2, prepared by the reaction of ethylene bromide or ethylene chloride with ammonia: used chiefly in veterinary medicine as an anthelmintic, and as an insecticide.
2. any derivative of this compound.
[1885-90; < L piper PEPPER + -AZINE]

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▪ drug
also called  hexahydropyrazine 

       anthelmintic drug used in the treatment of intestinal roundworm infection in humans and domestic animals (including poultry) and against pinworm infection in humans. It is administered orally, in repeated doses, usually as the citrate salt. Its action causes worms to be paralyzed and then eliminated in the stool.

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