All articles starting with F

Fluoxymesterone

Fluoxymesterone (Halotestin, FXM) is a synthetic 17-alpha-alkylated androgenic anabolic steroid, first FDA-approved in 1956 and now discontinued, used orally for male hypogonadism, delayed puberty, and palliative treatment of inoperable metastatic breast cancer.

Flupenthixol

Flupenthixol is a first-generation thioxanthene antipsychotic drug, first available in the United Kingdom in 1965, used to treat schizophrenia as tablets or a long-acting injection and, at low doses, depression with or without anxiety.

Flupentixol

Flupentixol (flupenthixol), thioxanthene first-generation antipsychotic, ATC N05AF01, brands Depixol, Psytixol, Fluanxol; oral and decanoate depot forms for schizophrenia; D1/D2 blockade; 2-4 week depot action.

Fluphenazine

Fluphenazine is a high-potency typical antipsychotic of the phenothiazine class, used for psychosis in schizophrenia and available as oral tablets or a long-acting decanoate injection.

Flupirtine

Flupirtine, a triaminopyridine non-opioid analgesic and selective neuronal potassium channel opener (Kv7/GIRK activator), was used in Europe from 1984 for pain with muscle tension until EMA withdrew it in 2018 over liver injury.

Flupoxam

Flupoxam (MON 18500, KNW-739) is a triazole carboxamide cellulose-biosynthesis-inhibitor herbicide introduced in 1989 for broadleaf weed control in winter cereals; targeting CESA1/CESA3, it is no longer EU-approved.

Fluprednisolone

Fluprednisolone (6α-fluoroprednisolone, Alphadrol) is a synthetic fluorinated glucocorticoid, C21H27FO5, about 2.5 times as potent as prednisolone; FDA-approved 1982, now discontinued.

Flupyrsulfuron methyl

Flupyrsulfuron-methyl, typically applied as its sodium salt flupyrsulfuron-methyl-sodium, is a DuPont sulfonylurea herbicide for grass and broadleaf weeds in cereals, inhibiting acetolactate synthase at rates near 12 grams per hectare.

Fluquinconazole

Fluquinconazole, a triazole (conazole) fungicide introduced by Schering in 1992, used mainly as a cereal take-all and canola blackleg seed treatment; EU-approved 2012-2021, later withdrawn in Great Britain.

Oct 20, 2026

Flurandrenolide

Flurandrenolide (fludroxycortide, brand Cordran) is a synthetic fluorinated topical corticosteroid for corticosteroid-responsive dermatoses, available as 0.05% cream, ointment, lotion, and 4 mcg/cm2 tape; FDA-approved 1965.

Flurazepam

Flurazepam is a long-acting benzodiazepine used mainly as a hypnotic for insomnia. Introduced in the United States in 1970 under the brand name Dalmane, it rapidly supplanted barbiturates for treating insomnia.

Flurbiprofen

Flurbiprofen is a chiral nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug sold as a racemic mixture, used for arthritis and pain, as eye drops preventing miosis, and in lozenges for sore throat.

Fluridone

Fluridone (CAS 59756-60-4) is a Group 12 systemic herbicide inhibiting phytoene desaturase, used mainly at 2-5 ppb in water against hydrilla and Eurasian watermilfoil; EPA-registered for aquatic use since 1986.

Fluro (Lending Works)

Fluro, formerly Lending Works, is a London-based UK consumer lender founded by Nick Harding and Matthew Powell in 2014, which pivoted from peer-to-peer lending to white-labeled embedded loans in 2022.

Flurochloridone

Flurochloridone (FLC), a chiral pyrrolidone pre-emergence herbicide (trans:cis 3:1) for potato, sunflower, cotton, and cereals; EU 2026 EFSA review found Repr. 1B toxicity, endocrine-disruptor criteria met, and TFA data gaps.

Fluroxypyr

Fluroxypyr (CAS 69377-81-7), a synthetic auxin pyridyloxy-carboxylate herbicide introduced in 1985, controls broadleaf weeds in cereals, pasture, turf, and rights of way; rapidly biodegraded in soil, low animal toxicity.

Flurpiridaz

Flurpiridaz (Flyrcado, flurpiridaz F 18, BMS-747158) is an FDA-approved (September 27, 2024) fluorine-18 PET myocardial perfusion radiotracer binding mitochondrial complex I, with 109-minute half-life and 94% extraction fraction, used to detect coronary artery disease.

Flurprimidol

Flurprimidol (Cutless, Topflor) is a pyrimidinyl plant growth regulator, CAS 56425-91-3, that inhibits gibberellin biosynthesis to retard growth of turf, ornamental trees, and bulb crops; registered in the US in 1989 but banned for pesticide use in the EU since 2009.

Flurtamone

Flurtamone (CAS 96525-23-4) is a racemic furanone bleaching herbicide inhibiting phytoene desaturase, used in cereals at 250-375 g ai/ha; EU approval expired 27 December 2018 over TFA groundwater and aquatic risk concerns.

Flush toilet

A flush toilet, or water closet, is a sanitation fixture that removes waste from a bowl by flushing it with water through a water-sealed trap into a drain.

Flushed Away

Flushed Away is a 2006 computer-animated comedy by DreamWorks and Aardman, in which a pampered pet rat is flushed down a London toilet into an underground rodent city.

Flushing (physiology)

Flushing, also called skin flushing or facial flushing, is a transient reddening of the skin, usually the face and neck, caused by increased blood flow and a feeling of warmth.

Flushing disorders

Flushing disorders: conditions of episodic skin reddening with warmth (hot flushes), classified in ICD-11 as EG02. Wet flushing suggests autonomic causes; dry flushing suggests drugs, carcinoid syndrome, or mast cell disease.

Flushing Meadows–Corona Park

Flushing Meadows–Corona Park is an 898-acre municipal park in Queens, New York City, built on an ash dump and hosting the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs, the UN General Assembly (1946–1950), the Unisphere, Queens Museum, US Open tennis center, and Citi Field.

Flushing–Main Street station (IRT Flushing Line)

Flushing–Main Street is the eastern terminus of the 7 train in downtown Flushing, Queens, opened in 1928 and among the busiest New York City Subway stations outside Manhattan.

Flushing, Queens

Flushing, Queens: New York City neighborhood founded 1645 as Dutch Vlissingen, site of the 1657 Flushing Remonstrance for religious freedom, now the city's largest Chinese community.

Flusilazole

Flusilazole, a silicon-containing triazole (conazole) fungicide, CAS 85509-19-9, C16H15F2N3Si, used on fruit, vegetables, and cereals; WHO class II, not EU-approved, index compound for acute triazole dietary risk.

Oct 20, 2026

Fluspirilene

Fluspirilene, marketed as Imap and Redeptin, is a long-acting injectable antipsychotic of the diphenylbutylpiperidine class used to treat chronic schizophrenia, given weekly by intramuscular injection.

Flusslandschaft Elbe Biosphere Reserve

Flusslandschaft Elbe (Elbe River Landscape) Biosphere Reserve, Germany's largest inland UNESCO biosphere reserve, ~282,250 ha along the Elbe across five federal states; recognized 1979 (Middle Elbe) and 1997 (transregional), floodplain forests, beavers, storks.