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Pitocin Med.|pɪˈtəʊsɪn|
Also pitocin.
[f. pituitary a. + oxytocin.]
A proprietary name for (an aqueous solution of) oxytocin.
1929Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 15 Jan. 514/1 Parke, Davis & Company, Detroit, Mich... Pitocin. For oxytocic principle of the pituitary gland... Claims use since about October 20, 1928. 1929Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 19 Jan. 237/2 The alpha and beta hormones [isolated from the posterior lobe of the pituitary body] are to be known commercially as pitocin and pitressin respectively. 1929Trade Marks Jrnl. 23 Jan. 117/1 Pitocin... All goods included in class 3 [i.e. chemical substances prepared for use in medicine and pharmacy]... Parke, Davis and Company,..pharmaceutical chemists. 1929Martindale & Westcott Extra Pharmacopoeia (ed. 19) II. 169 Each Cc. of ‘Pitocin’ contains 10 oxytocic units, and it is thus identical in activity with ‘Pituitzin’. 1948Martin & Hynes Clin. Endocrinol. i. 11 Two distinct hormones can be obtained from posterior pituitary extracts—pitressin, and oxytocin or pitocin, which acts on uterine muscle. 1961Lancet 30 Sept. 762/1 The use of pitocin induction of labour in hæmolytic disease of the newborn. |