nandrolone

nandrolone
A semisynthetic, parenterally administered, anabolic, androgenic steroid.
- n. decanoate an anabolic androgen.
- n. phenpropionate a moderately long-acting synthetic anabolic androgen. SYN: n. phenylpropionate.
- n. phenylpropionate SYN: n. phenpropionate.

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nan·dro·lone 'nan-drə-.lōn n a semisynthetic anabolic steroid C18H26O2 derived from testosterone and used in the form of its esters to control metastatic breast cancer and to treat certain anemias and postmenopausal osteoporosis called also 19-nortestosterone

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n.
a synthetic male sex hormone with anabolic effects. It is administered by injection in the treatment of aplastic anaemia and high doses may cause signs of virilization in women. Trade name: Deca-Durabolin.

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nan·dro·lone (nanґdro-lōn) an anabolic-androgenic steroid that differs from testosterone in lacking a methyl group attached to carbon 10 of the steroid nucleus; it has anabolic effects that are more pronounced than its androgenic effects.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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