thalidomide

tha·lido·mide (t̸hə lid′ə mīd′)

noun

a crystalline solid, CHNO, formerly used as a sedative and hypnotic: found to be responsible for severe birth deformities when taken during pregnancy

Etymology: < thallic + (im)ido- + (glutari)mide < glut(en) + (tart)ar(ic) + imide

Converse of object

take: About 4 out of every 10 people taking thalidomide in these situations respond to the treatment.
use: Trials have been done using thalidomide to treat various cancer types.
include: These include thalidomide which is a drug that reduces the blood supply to tumors to stop them growing.
receive: Other children also received Thalidomide in the same high dosage.
suggest: She also felt that " confused " by Fraser suggesting that Thalidomide is " evil " .
try: I have also been on prednisolone and did try thalidomide for a while but to no avail.

Preposition: as

treatment: Great interest is being shown in the combination of temozolomide and thalidomide as a potential treatment.

Adjective modifier

e.g.: Sometimes it will marvel at their failure to anticipate and address the many problems the technology turned out to have ( e.g. thalidomide ).

Modifies a noun

tragedy: At the same time the thalidomide tragedy produced children born without limbs.
scandal: Set against the 1960s Thalidomide drug scandal, this is a love story with show tunes, love songs and monster baby Tangos.
disaster: The big one was the thalidomide disaster of 1962.
victim: Gary Skyner was the UK's second thalidomide victim and in addition to being a comedian, he is an effective inspirational speaker.
analog: Steroid dependence is a serious problem and thalidomide analogs might provide a possible option, although these are still under development ( Ref.
baby: The disaster of thalidomide babies is evidence against this.

Noun used with modifier

drug: Another trial is looking at using the drug thalidomide to help slow down or stop cachexia.
dose: Therapeutic questions across both pathways - To assess the value of low dose thalidomide in maintenance in improving overall and progression-free survival.
primate: Only in certain strains of rabbit and primate can thalidomide 's effect on the human fetus be reproduced.

Possessives

effect: Only in certain strains of rabbit and primate can thalidomide's effect on the human fetus be reproduced.

Preposition: in

combination: One trial in ovarian cancer tested thalidomide in combination with carboplatin chemotherapy for advanced ovarian cancer.

Preposition: with

chemotherapy: There is research combining the drug thalidomide with chemotherapy.

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