thalidomide

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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1960s as a sleeping aid, and to pregnant women as an antiemetic to combat morning sickness and other symptoms, but withdrawn as causing severe birth defects, such as phocomelia; currently used to treat leprosy.

/θəˈlɪdəˌmaɪd/

thalidomide thalidomides phthalidomide

From (ph)thal(ic acid) + (im)ido + (i)mide.

-2-(2,6-dioxopiperidin-3-yl)-1H-isoindole-1 3(2H)dione — C13H10N2O4

flid pseudothalidomide syndrome thalidomide baby thalidomide child

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