Word.ws English Dictionary

fluoroestradiol

fluoroestradiol noun: a radioactive diagnostic agent, an analog of estrogen used to detect estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer lesions.

Noun

fluoroestradiol (uncountable)

  1. A radioactive diagnostic agent, an analog of estrogen used to detect estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer lesions.

Origin of fluoroestradiol

From fluoro- + estradiol.

Questions about fluoroestradiol

What does fluoroestradiol mean?
Fluoroestradiol means a radioactive diagnostic agent, an analog of estrogen used to detect estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer lesions.
What part of speech is fluoroestradiol?
Fluoroestradiol is a noun.

Words near fluoroestradiol in the dictionary

  1. fluoroelastomer
  2. fluoroelastomers
  3. fluoroemerald
  4. fluoroenzyme
  5. fluoroenzymes
  6. fluoroestradiol
  7. fluoroethane
  8. fluoroethanes
  9. fluoroethoxymethyl
  10. fluoroethyl
  11. fluoroethylene

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fluoroestradiol (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: “fluoroestradiol.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fluoroestradiol. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.