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/θəˈlɪdəˌmaɪd/ · noun
(pharmacology) 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1960s as a sleeping aid, and to pregnant women as an antiemetic to combat morning sickness and other symptoms, but withdrawn as causing severe birth defects, such as phocomelia; currently used to treat leprosy..
I have tried all the medium and short acting non-barbiturate sedatives since the war (including thalidomide) but they don’t work and I don’t trust the newfangled long acting, “safe” analgesics.
I can't stand to see your thalidomide robot face
Use thalidomide when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Thalidomide means (pharmacology) 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1960s as a sleeping aid, and to pregnant women as an antiemetic to combat morning sickness and other symptoms, but withdrawn as causing severe birth defects, such as phocomelia; currently used to treat leprosy..
Common synonyms include -2-(2,6-dioxopiperidin-3-yl)-1H-isoindole-1, 3(2H)dione — C13H10N2O4.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I have tried all the medium and short acting non-barbiturate sedatives since the war (including thalidomide) but they don’t work and I don’t trust the newfangled long acting, “safe” analgesics.
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