stilbestrol
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of stilbestrol
C20: from stilbene + oestrus + -ol 1
Example Sentences
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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 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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Food and Drug Administration that it forbid outright the prescribing of stilbestrol during pregnancy.
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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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The Boston investigators do not claim to have proved that stilbestrol treatment was the cause of the cancers.
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