DIETHYLSTILBESTROL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diethylstilbestrol mean? 

• DIETHYLSTILBESTROL (noun)
  The noun DIETHYLSTILBESTROL has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DIETHYLSTILBESTROL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIETHYLSTILBESTROL (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 ("diethylstilbestrol" 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)

 Context examples 

A disorder likely to occur in children and grandchildren of a woman treated with diethylstilbestrol during pregnancy.

(Diethylstilbestrol Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Diethylstilbestrol, NCI Dictionary)

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

(Cervical Clear Cell Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic hydrogenated derivative of diethylstilbestrol (DES).

(Hexestrol, NCI Thesaurus)

A well-known teratogen and carcinogen, diethylstilbestrol inhibits the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, thereby blocking the testicular synthesis of testosterone, lowering plasma testosterone, and inducing a chemical castration.

(Diethylstilbestrol, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called diethylstilbestrol.

(DES, NCI Dictionary)