English-German translations for thalidomide

• Contergan das
  Das Gleiche geschah im Übrigen mit Contergan und dessen Auswirkungen auf menschliche Embryonen. The same of course has happened with thalidomide and the causation of phocomelia in human embryos.
• Thalidomid
  Die Leute erinnern sich an Thalidomid und denken, daß sich die Gefahren eines bestimmten Produkts sehr schnell zeigen, als Geburtsfehler oder so. People look back to thalidomide and think that the dangers of a given product emerge very quickly, in birth defects or something of that kind.

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1960s as a sleeping aid, and to pregnant women as an antiemetic to combat morning sickness and other symptoms, but withdrawn as causing severe birth defects, such as phocomelia; currently used to treat leprosy

Synonyms

• RS)-
• di
• oxo
• piperidin
• -yl
• isoindole
• di
• one
• C
• H
• N
• O

Related words

• thali
• lethality
• Thalia
• phthalic
• Nathalie
• terephthalic
• phthalimide
• naphthalic
• naphthaline