megestrol acetate

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   a synthetic progestational compound used to treat endometrial carcinoma

   Synonymsmegestrol

   Broaderprogestin

Questions about megestrol acetate

What does megestrol acetate mean?

megestrol acetate means "a synthetic progestational compound used to treat endometrial carcinoma".

What is another word for megestrol acetate?

Close synonyms include megestrol. 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 megestrol acetate a common word?

megestrol acetate 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.