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How to pronounce “thalidomide”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of thalidomide with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research 12 minutes, 48 seconds
thalidomide,
- Definition summary
- (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1960s as a sleeping aid, and to pregnant women as an antiemetic to combat morning sickness and other symptoms, but withdrawn as causing severe birth defects, such as phocomelia; currently used to treat leprosy.
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How to pronounce thalidomide
Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research 12 minutes, 48 seconds

thalidomide,
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Meaning
- [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1960s as a sleeping aid, and to pregnant women as an antiemetic to combat morning sickness and other symptoms, but withdrawn as causing severe birth defects, such as phocomelia; currently used to treat leprosy.
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