diethylstilbesterol

Questions about diethylstilbesterol

What does diethylstilbesterol mean?

diethylstilbesterol means "synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy".

How many syllables are in diethylstilbesterol?

diethylstilbesterol has 6 syllables and divides as die-thyl-stil-be-ste-rol under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for diethylstilbesterol?

Close synonyms include DES, stilbesterol. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diethylstilbesterol a common word?

diethylstilbesterol is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for diethylstilbesterol come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.