stilbestrol
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of stilbestrol
C20: from stilbene + oestrus + -ol 1
Example Sentences
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Department of Agriculture once advised chicken raisers to dose broiler pullets with the synthetic hormone 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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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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Three years ago, said Dr. Mazer, when a group of Oxford biochemists announced the synthesis of stilbestrol, "the product was welcomed for clinical trial with guarded hopefulness throughout the world."
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The significance of his case is that this once, at least, stilbestrol helped the human body to destroy a prostatic cancer and not merely arrest it.
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