hexamethonium
/ˌhɛksəməˈθoʊniəm/
noun
- A drug that blocks nerve signals in the autonomic nervous system, formerly used to treat high blood pressure.
- Doctors stopped prescribing hexamethonium because of its strong side effects.
- The history of hexamethonium shows how early blood pressure treatments worked on the nervous system.
- Hexamethonium was one of the first medications used to control severe hypertension.