varenicline
English
Noun
varenicline (uncountable)
- A particular pharmaceutical drug, an agonist for nicotine, used to aid tobacco-smoking cessation.
- 2010, Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles:
- Farewell Zyban, hello Champix, Pfizer's name for a new compound called varenicline, which is not an anti-depressant but a ‘nicotine receptor partial agonist’.
- 2010, Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles:
Further reading
varenicline on Wikipedia.Wikipedia