thalidomide
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1960s as a sleeping aid, and to pregnant women as an antiemetic to combat morning sickness and other symptoms, but withdrawn as causing severe birth defects, such as phocomelia; currently used to treat leprosy.
Related words
- flid
- pseudothalidomide syndrome
- thalidomide baby
- thalidomide child
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