finasteride

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
16
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/fɪnˈæs.təɹ.aɪd/

Definition of finasteride

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)A medication used to treat male pattern baldness and benign prostatic hyperplasia in males.

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Etymology

From fina (“possibly a coined pharmaceutical name developed by scientists at Merck”) + -steride (“a testosterone reductase inhibitor”). First use appears c. 1989 in the publication Pharmaceutical Business News.

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