ritalin

Pharmacology, Trademark.

1. a brand of methylphenidate in its hydrochloride form.

noun

1. trademark a preparation of methylphenidate, a drug related to amphetamine, used to treat attention deficit disorder in children

n.

proprietary name (Ciba Ltd., originally in Switzerland) for drug methylphenidate hydrochloride, copyrighted 1948, years before the drug itself was marketed.

1. A trademark for the drug methylphenidate.