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  • adjective Alternative spelling of estrogenic.

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Examples

  • You've oestrogenic features, and facial symmetry and even just the scent of you's

    Chemistry (Valentine's Day Massacre) 2010

  • POPs and HMs have been associated with a number of human health risks, which include negative effects on the development and maintenance of female characteristics of the body (oestrogenic effects), disruption of endocrine functions, impairing the way the immune system works and affecting reproduction capabilities.

    Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 7 2008

  • It was postulated that synthetic chemicals in the environment are the prime source of the excessive oestrogenic stimulation, with exposure through food and water being the primary route.

    Archive 2008-12-01 doyle 2008

  • It was postulated that synthetic chemicals in the environment are the prime source of the excessive oestrogenic stimulation, with exposure through food and water being the primary route.

    The Passaic River and broken babies doyle 2008

  • With moisturisers packed with potentially oestrogenic Parabens and soaps containing Triclosan – a chemical linked to super bugs, is the only answer to give up using our toiletries all together?

    Archive 2006-09-01 Thatsnews 2006

  • With moisturisers packed with potentially oestrogenic Parabens and soaps containing Triclosan – a chemical linked to super bugs, is the only answer to give up using our toiletries all together?

    Where do I find Non-Toxic Toiletries? Thatsnews 2006

  • Both workers succeeded in isolating from the urine of pregnant women a substance in crystalline form having oestrogenic effects.

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 - Presentation Speech 1966

  • Further development in the chemistry of the oestrogenic hormones could not take place until the purely biological discoveries by Allen and Doisy in

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 - Presentation Speech 1966

  • As regards the oestrogenic, or follicle, hormone it was established that extracts from certain organs, e.g. the ovaries and placenta, bring about the characteristic oestrus phenomena in castrated female rats.

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 - Presentation Speech 1966

  • The relation between sterols and oestrogenic substances which had been assumed on crystallographical grounds became probable from the chemical point of view only after Butenandt and

    Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 - Presentation Speech 1966

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