dexfenfluramine

American  

[deks-fen-floor-uh-meen] / ˌdɛks fɛnˈflʊər əˌmin /

noun

Pharmacology.

1. an adrenergic drug, a form of fenfluramine, formerly used in treating obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.

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Example Sentences

Proponents point out that dexfenfluramine has been used abroad by millions of people over the past decade with no major problems.

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Twenty-two neurologists petitioned the FDA last winter to delay approval of dexfenfluramine, citing studies that show it causes brain damage in laboratory animals ranging from mice to baboons.

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Knoll Pharmaceutical's sibutramine is a serotonin drug, like dexfenfluramine and its predecessor, fenfluramine.

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Meanwhile, Servier had finally figured out how to produce pure dexfenfluramine, without its mirror-image molecule.

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Food and Drug Administration approved a new antiobesity drug called dexfenfluramine that will be sold in America perhaps as early as June by Wyeth-Ayerst under the brand name Redux.

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