thalidomide

IPA: θʌɫˈɪdʌmaɪd

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1960s as a sleeping aid, and to pregnant women as an antiemetic to combat morning sickness and other symptoms, but withdrawn as causing severe birth defects, such as phocomelia; currently used to treat leprosy.

Examples of "thalidomide" in Sentences

In Britain and elsewhere it was called thalidomide.
Dangerous drugs like thalidomide could still come to market.
Canada's so-called thalidomide babies are now in late middle age.
Some patients today call thalidomide a "miracle" in terms of remission and what is perceived cure.
And we know from experiences such as thalidomide that there are specific times during development of specific risks with specific chemicals.
She had heard about a drug called thalidomide that could cure these ulcers and begged her doctor to obtain it from the Brazilian manufacturer.
Von Glasow, who is himself a "thalidomide" (that's how the people in the film refer to themselves; others apparently prefer "thalidomider") with deformed hands projecting from what should have been his elbows, has no patience with the gimp mystique.