# finasteride

> English word · Noun · IPA /fɪnˈæs.təɹ.aɪd/ · frequency rank #82,295

## Definitions
1. A medication used to treat male pattern baldness and benign prostatic hyperplasia in males.

## Etymology
From fina (“possibly a coined pharmaceutical name developed by scientists at Merck”) + -steride (“a testosterone reductase inhibitor”). First use appears c. 1989 in the publication Pharmaceutical Business News.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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