Usually means: Drug causing birth defects historically.
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  1. thalidomide: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. thalidomide: Merriam-Webster
  3. thalidomide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. thalidomide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. thalidomide: Collins English Dictionary
  6. thalidomide: Vocabulary.com
  7. Thalidomide, thalidomide: Wordnik
  8. thalidomide: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. thalidomide: Wiktionary
  10. thalidomide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. thalidomide: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. thalidomide: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. thalidomide: Dictionary.com
  14. Thalidomide: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Thalidomide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. thalidomide: Rhymezone
  17. thalidomide: FreeDictionary.org
  18. thalidomide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. thalidomide: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. thalidomide: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. thalidomide: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Thalidomide: Merck Manuals
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  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  9. thalidomide: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  10. thalidomide: Medical dictionary
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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noun:  (pharmacology) A drug sold during the late 1950s and early 1960s as a sleeping aid, and to pregnant women as an antiemetic to combat morning sickness and other symptoms, but withdrawn as causing severe birth defects, such as phocomelia; currently used to treat leprosy.

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