stilbestrol
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of stilbestrol
C20: from stilbene + oestrus + -ol 1
Example Sentences
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So, by the FDA's top-hazard figures, a roast-caponette fancier would get only a minute fraction of a milligram of stilbestrol if he ate all the skin fat and liver.
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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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Department of Agriculture once advised chicken raisers to dose broiler pullets with the synthetic hormone stilbestrol.
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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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Agriculture said further that stilbestrol should be administered as a pellet thrust under the skin of the pullet's neck.
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