Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A substance derived from amygdalin, promoted by some individuals as an antineoplastic drug but found by researchers to have no proven benefit in animals or humans.
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- noun A
drug , derived from theamygdalin ofapricot kernels , once thought capable of destroyingcancer cells by the release ofcyanide but later banned in theUnited States by the FDA.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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One you might want to consider is laetrile which is obtained from the seeds of apricots.
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To bypass this process, especially to get unauthorized and usually futile treatments such as laetrile or krebiozen, cancer patients must travel outside the United States, to Mexico, for example.
Will to Live Johnson, Diane 2008
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I mean, are you talking homeopathy or laetrile, orwhat?
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Parked Mustang Test of Environmental Progress 2010
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I mean, are you talking homeopathy or laetrile, orwhat?
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Parked Mustang Test of Environmental Progress 2010
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You can't tell me that doctors like the Pauls (Ron is an obstetrician, Rand an ophthalmologist) don't know that laetrile is cyanide.
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When I was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the late 1970s, more than half the states responded to frantic pleas from cancer victims by passing bills to legalize the use of laetrile, a concoction of crushed apricot pits and cyanide, which was touted as a cancer cure.
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When I was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the late 1970s, more than half the states responded to frantic pleas from cancer victims by passing bills to legalize the use of laetrile, a concoction of crushed apricot pits and cyanide, which was touted as a cancer cure.
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I mean, are you talking homeopathy or laetrile, orwhat?
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Parked Mustang Test of Environmental Progress 2010
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The bottom line: The JBS, through its future chairman, Dr. Larry McDonald, promoted and profited from the laetrile fraud of the 1970s.
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So people "treated" with laetrile felt better because didn't feel the cancer.
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