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Thalidomide
thalidomide
1. Thalidomide is a drug which used to be given to pregnant women, before it was discovered that it resulted in babies being born with wrongly shaped arms and legs. N-UNCOUNT 2. Thalidomide is used to describe someone whose arms and legs are wrongly shaped because their mother took thalidomide when she was pregnant. ...the special needs of thalidomide children. ADJ: ADJ n
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1.
noun Etymology: phthalic acid + -id- (from imide) + -o- + imide Date: 1958 a drug C13H10N2O4 that was formerly used as a sedative and is now used as an immunomodulatory agent especially in the treatment of leprosy and that is known to cause malformations of infants born to mothers using it during pregnancy ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
n. a drug formerly used as a sedative but found in 1961 to cause foetal malformation when taken by a mother early in pregnancy. Phrases and idioms thalidomide baby (or child) a baby or child born deformed from the effects of thalidomide. Etymology: ph thalimi doglutari mide THALLI pl. of THALLUS. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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1. фарм. талидомид (транквилизатор с вредным побочным действием) thalidomide babies —- жертвы талидомида, "талидомидные дети" (дети, родившиеся уродами из-за того, что их матери принимали талидомид) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
5.
~ n trademark a drug given to people to make them calm, until it was discovered that it harmed the development of the arms and legs of unborn babies ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1958, from "phthalimidoglutarimide," based on abbreviated form of naphthalene; a morning-sickness drug responsible for severe birth defects in Europe from 1956 to 1961, when it was withdrawn. It was never approved for use in America thanks to the efforts of Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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