Word.ws English Dictionary

ethynylestradiol

ethynylestradiol is the alternative form of ethinylestradiol.

Meaning of ethinylestradiol

Noun

ethinylestradiol (uncountable)

  1. A derivative of 17β-estradiol, the major endogenous estrogen in humans, used in oral contraceptives.

Questions about ethynylestradiol

What is ethynylestradiol the alternative form of?
Ethynylestradiol is the alternative form of ethinylestradiol.

Words near ethynylestradiol in the dictionary

  1. ethynylations
  2. ethynylbenzene
  3. ethynylbenzenes
  4. ethynylene
  5. ethynylenes
  6. ethynylestradiol
  7. ethynyls
  8. ethypicone
  9. ethyr
  10. ethyrs
  11. ETI

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ethynylestradiol (page history and authors); ethinylestradiol (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ethynylestradiol.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ethynylestradiol. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.