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orphan drug

noun

Definitions

  1. A medicinal drug which is effective in the treatment of some disease(s), but which is not…

    A medicinal drug which is effective in the treatment of some disease(s), but which is not manufactured or marketed because the demand is insufficient to cover the costs of supply.

    • Tragically, her disease is so rare that the only effective medicine is an orphan drug.

  2. A drug as defined under the Orphan Drug Act (1983).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for orphan drug. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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