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fen-phen

/fen-fen/US // ˈfɛnˌfɛn //

芬芬,芬芳,汾酒

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Pharmacology.

    • : a drug that is a combination of fenfluramine and phentermine, formerly used in treating obesity but withdrawn from the market because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.

Examples

  • The Daily Pic: Chun Kai Fen gives a nod to the projects where Singaporeans live.

  • Last year a seven-mile-long park opened on the banks of the River Fen, which flows through Linfen.

  • The fen country faintly reminds one of Holland, lying low and dotted here and there with huge windmills.

  • It is a remarkable ruin, rising out of the flat fen country, as someone has said, "like a light-house out of the sea."

  • Crowland is a gray, lonely little town in the midst of the wide fen country.

  • The season had been unusually dry and favorable to the fen land, as this section is called.

  • Shortly after, we left the hills and found ourselves again in the fen country.

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