mifepristone
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9.7
- noun
- /ˌmɪfəˈprɪstoʊn/
- Specialized
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mifepristona
- If our encouraging clinical results are confirmed in a larger series, the combination of mifepristone and misoprostol may prove to be a safe, effective, and reasonably inexpensive means of medical termination of early pregnancy.
- mifepristone and misoprostol
- abortion with mifepristone
- combination with mifepristone
Examples
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In a second group of women who were given 200-1000 mcg misoprostol 48 hours after the administration of 200 mg mifepristone, there was a significant increase in the amplitude and frequency of uterine contractions.
Academic text (1992) -
Mifepristone works by counteracting progesterone, a hormone that is needed to maintain pregnancy.
Academic text (1996) -
In 18 of 21 women, complete abortion took place after treatment with misoprostol and mifepristone.
Academic text (1992) -
In women pretreated with mifepristone, spontaneous uterine activity can be recorded.
Academic text (1992) -
Complete abortion took place in 18 of the 21 women who received misoprostol after mifepristone, but in only 2 of 40 women given misoprostol alone.
Academic text (1992) -
The antiprogestagen, mifepristone, will induce abortion in early pregnancy.
Academic text (1992) -
The rate of complete abortion with mifepristone combined with exogenous prostaglandin ranges from 85% to 100%.
Academic text (1992) -
Furthermore, 95% of women in early pregnancy (under 49 days' amenorrhea) aborted completely after administration of 600 mg mifepristone in combination with 600 mcg misoprostol.
Academic text (1992) -
First, she is given the mifepristone, which detaches the pregnancy sac from the uterus and softens the cervix.
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Only a few weeks pregnant, she, too, agreed to the mifepristone test.
Synonyms
4
4.9
A drug taken to end an early pregnancy without surgery
3
7.7
A medicine used to end an early pregnancy by stopping a hormone that keeps the pregnancy
1
6.5
A drug that ends a pregnancy by causing the body to remove the unborn baby
A drug that makes a pregnancy end before birth
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mifepristone is a made-up drug name that hints at its job: the -pristone part sounds like the hormone 'progesterone', which the drug blocks, and the mi- start can help you remember it is a modified form that changes that hormone's action. So, this name reminds you that mifepristone works by acting against 'progesterone'.