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Based on a translation of the French name of the discoverer, Fourneau, meaning stove.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
stovain
Today it means: The hydrochloride of the benzoyl ester of 1-(dimethylaminomethyl)-1-methyl propanol, used, in solution with strychnine, as a local anaesthetic. Full definition →