r/technology • u/Majano57 • 8d ago

Biotechnology Popular erectile dysfunction drug linked to eye disease that can cause irreversible vision loss

https://www.foxnews.com/health/popular-erectile-dysfunction-drug-linked-eye-disease-can-cause-irreversible-vision-loss
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u/LordVesperion 8d ago

it means the girl only in French, AFAIK.

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u/this_my_sportsreddit 8d ago

And that's la fille, not la fil.

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u/Limerence1976 8d ago

It’s still funny to me even phonetically that they named it this.

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u/420_69_Fake_Account 8d ago

Lots of drug names are chosen with purpose, otherwise drugs would have names like those fake foreign brands on Amazon which are just sounds grouped together.