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Pavlos - can you help with a Greek word?

by Catherine (guest)

1/9/2002, 1:37 PM

This is a bit off-track, but I wondered if you can help me with finding out what a drug named Terimon is for. I don't speak a word of Greek, and can't understand the web-pages that feature it in a Greek pharmacological guide.

I know it's a bizarre request, but it may help in the naming of a horse whose sire is called Terimon! Ask Nan - she's already in the know on this one!

Thanks a lot!

#Greek

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- Pavlos (guest) +3

1/10/2002, 2:40 AM

My pleasure to help!
Terimon is the brand name of a drug containing Tamoxifen. The US version is know as Nolvadex. Tamoxifen is an estrogen-antagonist used to treat breast cancer in women. On a bizarre note, many male bodybuilders abuse Tamoxifen to avoid so-called "bitch tits" which result from anabolic steroid abuse (as mentioned in the movie "Fight Club").
May a suggest that you condider a different approach?

- Catherine (guest) +2

1/10/2002, 3:09 AM

Erm, I take your point about going about this a different way, although in a more liberal world, I think naming the mare "Bitch Tit" could have a heck of an impact in the funny world of showing horses!

Whilst it isn't exactly a nice name from that point of view, there's a small laugh there, as Terimon's sire is called Bustino! I wonder if it was a man with a chest fixation involved in the naming......

Thanks very much for your help! I will pass it on.

- Pavlos (guest) +1

1/10/2002, 4:28 AM

Oh my gawd!!!!!! LOL!!!

- Pavlos (guest)

1/10/2002, 4:34 AM

PS It is not surprising that an anagram of Terimon is "men riot!" ;)

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