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/fɛnfɛn/ · noun
(pharmacology, medicine, dated) A combination of the drugs fenfluramine and phentermine, formerly prescribed for weight loss..
It is hard to recall the last time a drug so excited the general public. Fen-phen in the 1990s, maybe? Viagra or Botox in the 2000s? Each had amazing hype cycles but none as explosive as Ozempic.
Use fen-phen when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fen-phen means (pharmacology, medicine, dated) A combination of the drugs fenfluramine and phentermine, formerly prescribed for weight loss..
Common synonyms include fenfluramine-phentermine, phentermine-fenfluramine, fenfluramine/phentermine, phentermine/fenfluramine.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It is hard to recall the last time a drug so excited the general public. Fen-phen in the 1990s, maybe? Viagra or Botox in the 2000s? Each had amazing hype cycles but none as explosive as Ozempic.
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