orphan drug
Noun
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Noun
orphan drug (plural orphan drugs)
- 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.
- (US, legal) A drug as defined under the Orphan Drug Act (1983).
- French: médicament orphelin
- German: Orphan-Arzneimittel
- Italian: farmaco orfano
- Portuguese: medicamento órfão
- Spanish: medicamento huérfano
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