Etymology

vardenafil

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Today it means: A piperazine drug used to treat erectile dysfunction. Full definition →

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The story

From [Term?] + -afil (“inhibitor of phosphodiesterase PDE5 with vasodilator action”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.