“orphan!”

The following 2 entries include the term orphan!.

orphan disease

noun

: a disease which affects a relatively small number of individuals and for which no drug therapy has been developed because the small market would make the research and the drug unprofitable

orphan drug

noun

: a drug that is not developed or marketed because its extremely limited use (as in the treatment of a rare disease) makes it unprofitable


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