DES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does DES mean? 

• DES (noun)
  The noun DES has 2 senses:

1. a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry

2. synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy

  Familiarity information: DES used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

DES; diethylstilbestrol; diethylstilboestrol; stilbestrol; stilboestrol

Hypernyms ("DES" is a kind of...):

estrogen; oestrogen (a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

DES; diethylstilbesterol; stilbesterol

Hypernyms ("DES" is a kind of...):

nonsteroid; nonsteroidal (an organic compound that does no contain a steroid)

 Context examples 

DES may increase the risk of uterine, ovarian, or breast cancer in women who took it.

(DES, NCI Dictionary)

It is associated with in utero exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES).

(Cervical Clear Cell Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Desmin (470 aa, ~54 kDa) is encoded by the human DES gene.

(Desmin, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic hydrogenated derivative of diethylstilbestrol (DES).

(Hexestrol, NCI Thesaurus)

“I saw little Tita as clearly as though I were back at the Rue des Apotres at Bordeaux,” said he.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The new dark matter map is 10 times the size of the one DES released in 2015 and continues to grow.

(New Clues to Universe's Structure Revealed, NASA)

Human DES wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 2q35 and is approximately 8 kb in length.

(DES wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

"Vos doigts tremblent comme la feuille, et vos joues sont rouges: mais, rouges comme des cerises!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM, for Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) is the agency which was given authority by diplomatic treaty the Convention of the Metre to maintain the International System of Units and to act in matters of world metrology, particularly concerning the demand for measurement standards of ever increasing accuracy, range and diversity, and the need to demonstrate equivalence between national measurement standards.

(International Bureau of Weights and Measures, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called DES.

(Diethylstilbestrol, NCI Dictionary)