thalidomide

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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1960s as a sleeping aid, and to pregnant women as an antiemetic to combat morning sickness and other symptoms, but withdrawn as causing severe birth defects, such as phocomelia; currently used to treat leprosy. countable,uncountable
    — I have tried all the medium and short acting non-barbiturate sedatives since the war (including thalidomide) but they don’t work and I don’t trust the newfangled long acting, “safe” analgesics.

词形变化

thalidomides plural phthalidomide alternative

词源

From (ph)thal(ic acid) + (im)ido + (i)mide.
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