atabrine
- n a drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria
- Neither quinine nor atabrine will suppress all infections.
- Two important results of wartime research were announced last week: SN 7618 is an antimalaria drug described by OSRD as "five or six times better" than atabrine.
- But, so far, the United Nations have only enough atabrine available for several million cases of malaria.