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ospemifene

ospemifene noun: an oral medication used to treat dyspareunia.

Noun

ospemifene (uncountable)

  1. An oral medication used to treat dyspareunia.
    • While raloxifene and tamoxifen have no estrogen agonist effect on the vagina, lasofoxifene and ospemifene show a positive impact on vaginal tissue in postmenopausal women.2015 August 28, Hyun-Kyung Kim et al., “The Recent Review of the Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause”, in Journal of Menopausal Medicine, volume 21, →DOI

Origin of ospemifene

From [Term?][Term?] + -mifene (“clomifene derivative”).

Questions about ospemifene

What does ospemifene mean?
Ospemifene means an oral medication used to treat dyspareunia.
What part of speech is ospemifene?
Ospemifene is a noun.

Words near ospemifene in the dictionary

  1. osotriazole
  2. osotriazoles
  3. Osoyoos
  4. OSP
  5. Ospelt
  6. ospemifene
  7. OSPF
  8. osphradia
  9. osphradial
  10. osphradium
  11. osphresiolagnia

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