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Thalidomide Thesaurus

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1960s as a sleeping aid, and to pregnant women as an antiemetic to combat morning sickness and other symptoms, but withdrawn as causing severe birth defects, such as phocomelia; currently used to treat leprosy.

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Related dictionary entries include sedative, tranquilizing, phthalidomide, lenalidomide, iberdomide, pomalidomide.

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