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MEGESTROL

Specialty Definition: MEGESTROL

DomainDefinition

Health

17-Hydroxy-6-methylpregna-3,6-diene-3,20-dione. A progestational hormone used most commonly as the acetate ester. As the acetate, it is more potent than progesterone both as a progestagen and as an ovulation inhibitor. It has also been used in the palliative treatment of breast cancer. (references)

Medicine

A drug that belongs to the group of hormones called progestins, used as hormone therapy to block estrogen and to suppress the effects of estrogen and androgens. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: MEGESTROL

Non-English Usage: "MEGESTROL" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (megestrol).

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Expression: MEGESTROL

Expression using "MEGESTROL": Megestrol Acetate. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MEGESTROL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

megestrol

62

megestrol acetate

19

acet megestrol

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: MEGESTROL

Language Translations for "MEGESTROL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

megrestrol (Megace, megestrol acetate), megestrol. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

megestrol (Megace, megestrol acetate). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

megestroli (Megace, megestrol acetate). (various references)

   

French

  

Megace (Megace, megestrol acetate), mégestrol (Megace, megestrol acetate). (various references)

   

German

  

Megestrol (Megace, megestrol acetate). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

Megestrol (Megace, megestrol acetate), Megace (Megace, megestrol acetate). (various references)

   

Italian

  

megestrolo (Megace, megestrol acetate). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

egestrolmay

   

Portuguese

  

megestrol. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

megestrol, acetato de megestrol (Megace, megestrol acetate). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

megestrol. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: MEGESTROL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-g-l-m-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: gomerels, molester.

-2 letters: emoters, gemotes, gomerel, melters, merlots, meteors, molters, omelets, reglets, remelts, remotes, resmelt, smelter, soleret, telomes.

-3 letters: egrets, emoter, emotes, ergots, gemote, gemots, gleets, golems, greets, legers, melter, merest, merges, merles, merlot, meteor, meters, metres, metros, molest, molter, morels, morsel, motels, oglers, omelet, ostler, reglet, relets, remelt, remote, resole, retems, stereo.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-g-l-m-o-r-s-t"
 

+2 letters: metrologies.

 

+3 letters: agglomerates, electrograms.

 

+4 letters: conglomerates, dermatologies, galvanometers, meteorologies, meteorologist, terminologies.

 

+5 letters: electromagnets, laryngectomees, laryngectomies, meteorologists, milliroentgens, remythologizes, rheumatologies, steamrollering.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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