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n. - An adrenergic drug used in many preparations to relieve allergic reactions or respiratory infections.

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Usage examples (18)
  • In a kitchen freezer agents found more than a kilogram of phenylpropanolamine solution.
  • Back in 2000, we had to give up the old formula Dimetapp Elixir we used with our older kids because the phenylpropanolamine in it was linked to strokes in young women.
  • A friend of ours recently got an email forward about the cold medicine ingredient phenylpropanolamine (and its unpleasant tendency to increase the risk of hemorrhagic...
  • I In May of 1989 the Drug Enforcement Administration received information from a chemical company in Connecticut that a suspicious order had been received from "JAH Company,"...
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