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- noun A
steroidal progestin .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a progesterone derivative used in oral contraceptives and in the control of menstruation and the treatment of abnormal uterine bleeding
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It may also be called norethynodrel with mestranol.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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It may also be called norethynodrel with mestranol.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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Even today, norethindrone, though not norethynodrel, is still used by millions of women as an oral contraceptive.
Heidi Kingstone: What Happened to the Father of the Pill? Whitewashed Out of History... 2010
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One and one-half years after the first publication by the Syntex group, chemists at G.D. Searle -- a company for which Pincus consulted, synthesized a close relative, norethynodrel, which, as shown by Pincus -- is largely converted in the stomach into norethindrone.
Heidi Kingstone: What Happened to the Father of the Pill? Whitewashed Out of History... 2010
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Both Syntex's norethindrone and Searle's norethynodrel were approved in 1957 by the FDA for the treatment of menstrual disorders.
Heidi Kingstone: What Happened to the Father of the Pill? Whitewashed Out of History... 2010
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