stilbestrol

/ stɪlˈbiːstrəl /

noun

1. another name for diethylstilbestrol

Word History and Origins

Origin of stilbestrol¹

C20: from stilbene + oestrus + -ol ¹

Example Sentences

Depending on weather and range, he may feed the beef a daily ration of two pounds of soy or cottonseed cake, fortified by molasses for energy, bonemeal for calcium, plus iodized salt and vitamins A and D. Antibiotics are added to increase the rate of gain and disease resistance; Stilbestrol, a female hormone preparation, helps to make the animal gentler and beefier.

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Food and Drug Administration that it forbid outright the prescribing of stilbestrol during pregnancy.

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No one knows the number of miscarriages prevented by stilbestrol among the many thousands of women who took it; by 1960, questions about the estrogen compound's efficacy had induced most doctors to avoid it in treating pregnant women.

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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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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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