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MESTRANOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mestranol mean? 

MESTRANOL (noun)
  The noun MESTRANOL has 1 sense:

1. a synthetic form of estrogen used in combination with a progestin in oral contraceptivesplay

  Familiarity information: MESTRANOL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MESTRANOL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A synthetic form of estrogen used in combination with a progestin in oral contraceptives

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("mestranol" is a kind of...):

estrogen; oestrogen (a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics)

Holonyms ("mestranol" is a substance of...):

Enovid (trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and norethynodrel)

Norinyl (trade name for an oral contraceptive containing norethindrone and mestranol)

Ovulen (trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and a progestin compound)


 Context examples 


Metabolized by the liver to ethynyl estradiol, mestranol serves as the estrogen component in several combination oral contraceptives.

(Mestranol, NCI Thesaurus)



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