stilbestrol
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of stilbestrol
C20: from stilbene + oestrus + -ol 1
Example Sentences
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The mothers' use of stilbestrol is suspected of planting a hormonal time bomb that can be deadly 15 or 20 years later.
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Medical doses of stilbestrol for human patients cover a wide range beginning at .1 mg. daily, but often run to 15 mg. daily, and may go as high as 125 mg.
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After 15 weeks' treatment he was able to go back to work, taking daily doses of stilbestrol.
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Cause of the panic was the allegation that men had been feminized by eating beef of steers fattened with the aid of a female hormonal substance, stilbestrol.
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Department of Agriculture once advised chicken raisers to dose broiler pullets with the synthetic hormone stilbestrol.
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