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antioestrogen

antioestrogen is the alternative form of antiestrogen.

Meaning of antiestrogen

Noun

antiestrogen (plural antiestrogens)

  1. A substance that blocks the production or utilization of estrogens, or inhibits their effects.
    • Dr. Esteva described a breast cancer patient first treated with a mastectomy and the antiestrogen tamoxifen in 1995.2008 June 17, Jane E. Brody, “Cancer as a Disease, Not a Death Sentence”, in New York Times

Forms of antioestrogen

pluralantioestrogens

Origin of antioestrogen

From anti- + estrogen.

Words formed from antioestrogen

Questions about antioestrogen

What is antioestrogen the alternative form of?
Antioestrogen is the alternative form of antiestrogen.

Words near antioestrogen in the dictionary

  1. Antiochus
  2. antiodontalgic
  3. antiodontalgics
  4. antioedema
  5. antioedematous
  6. antioestrogen
  7. antioestrogenic
  8. antioestrogens
  9. antiofficial
  10. antiogoside
  11. antioil

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antioestrogen (page history and authors); antiestrogen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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