stilboestrol

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stilboestrol - a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry

DES, diethylstilbestrol, diethylstilboestrol, stilbestrol

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

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DES diethylstilbestrol diethylstilboestrol estrogen hormone oestrogen stilbestrol			This flawed science has resulted, for instance, in the drug diethylstilboestrol or stilboestrol, a synthetic ostrogen for checking cancer of the prostrate and preventing miscarriages but was found to cause transplacental cancer twenty years after the drug was first marketed (pp. Pietro Croce, Vivisection or Science? An Investigation into Testing ... by Islam & Science No cases of the cancer had been reported since Stilboestrol, which was used to prevent miscarriages and was blamed for causing the cancer, was banned in the 1970s. Schoolgirl, 14, beats 10m -to -one odds; Joy over all-clear on cancer by Daily Post (Liverpool, England) Thirty years ago Stilboestrol, a drug which was used to prevent miscarriages, was blamed for causing the cancer. My Jenna really is a girl in 10 million; TEENAGER WINS CANCER FIGHT by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)			Stigmaria stigmasterol stigmata stigmatic Stigmatic geometry Stigmatically stigmatisation stigmatise stigmatism stigmatist Stigmatization stigmatize Stigmatose stigmeology stignomancy Stigonomancy Stijl Stike Stikine Stilar stilb stilbene stilbesterol stilbestrol stilbite stilboestrol stile Stilet stiletto stiletto heel Stilicho Still still alarm Still and anon still frame still hunt still life still room Still watcher still water Still wine Still's disease Still-burn Still-closing still-fish Still-hunt still-life stillage Stillatitious Stillatory stillbirth			Stil, Andre Stil, André Stilar STILAS Stilb Stilb Stilb Stilb Stilb Stilbaceae stilbamidine Stilbazolium-substituted Polyepichlorohydrin Stilbellaceae stilbene stilbene stilbene Stilbenes Stilbenes Stilbenes stilbesterol stilbesterol stilbestrol stilbestrol stilbestrol Stilbetin Stilbetin Stilbetin stilbite stilbite Stilbocarpa Mosaic Bacilliform Virus stilboestrol stilbs stilbs stile stile stile Stile galant Stile Liberty stile plate Stile Project Stile Project Forum Stile recitativo Stile recitativo STILE trial Stiles Stiles Stiles method Stiles, Charles W. Stiles, Ezra Stilesia Stilesia globipunctata Stilesia hepatica Stilet Stilet stilette stilette stiletto stiletto Stiletto flies Stiletto fly stiletto heel

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