Pergonal

[ pur-guh-nal ]

Pharmacology, Trademark.

1. a brand name for a preparation containing FSH and LH obtained from the urine of postmenopausal women, prepared for injection in both men and women in the treatment of certain kinds of infertility.

Example Sentences

The fertility drug Pergonal was developed using gallons of nuns' urine.

From BBC

The fertility drug Pergonal was developed using gallons of nuns' urine.

From BBC

In the decades since the introduction of Pergonal, millions of women have had their ovaries undergo “controlled ovarian hyperstimulation,” with dosing decisions made somewhat arbitrarily in an inconsistent fashion from one center to the next.

From Forbes

Ms. Schreiber, who declined an interview request for this article, was keenly familiar with fertility options: Her mother, Linda, had become a bit of a celebrity in her own right in the 1970s after a regimen of the pregnancy drug Pergonal resulted in quadruplets.

From New York Times

But the exact amount of Pergonal required to cause just one follicle to mature rather than three or four--or in this case seven--varies from patient to patient.

From Time Magazine Archive