bishydroxycoumarin

[bis″hi-drok″se-koo´mah-rin]

former name for dicumarol.

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Patients were also excluded if they could not coordinate with the cognitive examination, highly sensitive to MPH, had taken or taking sympathomimetic agents such as [sz]-adrenoreceptor blocking drugs, received or receiving monoamine oxidase inhibitor drugs such as clonidine, other a-2 adrenergic receptor agonist, tricyclic antidepressants, theophylline, or bishydroxycoumarin in the past 30 days, and history of drug or alcohol dependence.

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Since the discovery that bishydroxycoumarin (dicumarol) was the hemorrhagic agent responsible for "sweet clover disease" in cattle, numerous congeners of the compound have been synthesized.[2] Warfarin sodium is the most widely used coumarin derivative in the United States.