Pergonal

American  

[pur-guh-nal] / ˈpɜr gəˌnæl /

Pharmacology, Trademark.

1. a brand name for a preparation containing FSH and LH obtained from the urine of postmenopausal women, prepared for injection in both men and women in the treatment of certain kinds of infertility.

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Example Sentences

So Patti, 30, was put back on Pergonal, the fertility drug that had helped her conceive Joseph.

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FOOTNOTE: *About 15% of pregnancies in women taking Pergonal result in twins; another 5% in triplets or more.

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Today in-vitro clinics help nature along by administering such drugs as Clomid and Pergonal, which can result in the development of more than one egg at a time.

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It takes three gallons of urine to produce enough of the extract, called Pergonal, for one injection.

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Pergonal, a mixture of hormones obtained from the urine of postmenopausal women, stimulates maturation of egg-bearing follicles within the ovaries; sometimes too many eggs are eventually released.

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