Finasteride

//fɪnˈæs.təɹ.aɪd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A medication used to treat male pattern baldness and benign prostatic hyperplasia in males. uncountable

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fina

Etymology

From fina (“possibly a coined pharmaceutical name developed by scientists at Merck”) + -steride (“a testosterone reductase inhibitor”). First use appears c. 1989 in the publication Pharmaceutical Business News.

Related phrases

androgenic alopeciabenign prostatic hyperplasia

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