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thalidomide

/θəˈlɪdəmaɪd/noun

उच्चारण थलिडमाइड

थैलिडोमाइड (एक दवा)

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noun
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    [U]

    a drug given in the late 1950s and early 1960s to calm people and help them sleep, which was found to cause serious defects in babies when taken by pregnant women; it is now used carefully to treat some diseases

    थैलिडोमाइड (एक दवा)

    • Thousands of children were born with shortened limbs because of thalidomide.
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General knowledge

The thalidomide disaster led many countries to make the testing of new medicines much stricter.

GK: थैलिडोमाइड त्रासदी के बाद कई देशों ने नई दवाओं के परीक्षण के नियम बहुत सख़्त कर दिए।