stilbestrol
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of stilbestrol
C20: from stilbene + oestrus + -ol 1
Example Sentences
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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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Food and Drug Administration that it forbid outright the prescribing of stilbestrol during pregnancy.
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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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But seven of the eight patients' mothers had one thing in common: they had been considered vulnerable to miscarriage and had been given 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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