stilbestrol
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of stilbestrol
C20: from stilbene + oestrus + -ol 1
Example Sentences
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Food and Drug Administration that it forbid outright the prescribing of stilbestrol during pregnancy.
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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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Department of Agriculture once advised chicken raisers to dose broiler pullets with the synthetic hormone stilbestrol.
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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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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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