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  • A trademark for the drug sildenafil citrate.

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  • proper noun pharmacology, trademark Trademark name of the drug, sildenafil citrate, used to treat erectile dysfunction.

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  • noun virility drug (trade name Viagra) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men

Etymologies

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Disputed. Possibly from Sanskrit व्याघ्र (vyāghra, "tiger"). Probably suggested by words such as virile and virility.

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