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A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
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diethylstilbestrol
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n. a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry [syn: diethylstilboestrol , stilbestrol , stilboestrol , DES ]
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Diethylstilbestrol ( DES ) ( INN , USAN , BAN ), also known formerly and inappropriately as stilboestrol ( BAN ), is a synthetic , non-steroidal estrogen of the stilbestrol group that was first synthesized in 1938. It is also classified as an endocrine ...
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n. An orally-active synthetic nonsteroidal oestrogen, first synthesized in 1938 and withdrawn in the 1970s on being identified as a teratogen.
Usage examples of diethylstilbestrol.
The hormones he'd taken--- Premarin for a while and then diethylstilbestrol, orally--- couldn't do anything for his voice, but they had thinned the hair a little across his slightly budding breasts.