contraceptive
tending or serving to prevent conception or impregnation.
pertaining to contraception.
a contraceptive device, drug, foam, etc.
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How to use contraceptive in a sentence
This may mean that female athletes who take the contraceptive pill are more likely to acclimatise better and quicker in hot conditions compared with female athletes who don’t take the pill.
How The Contraceptive Pill Could Help Female Athletes Stay Cool | LGBTQ-Editor | November 21, 2020 | No Straight NewsThis led to health facilities being closed, frequent contraceptive stockouts, staff layoffs and salary cuts.
Insights Into How The US Abortion Gag Rule Affects Health Services In Kenya | LGBTQ-Editor | October 2, 2020 | No Straight NewsThe 2012 policy discussed the global lack of access to contraceptives.
Erased From the Trump Administration’s Draft of a Key Foreign Aid Policy: Any Mention of LGBT People | by Yeganeh Torbati | August 20, 2020 | ProPublicaIt also means that we have to forecast female education and access to contraceptives before we can do the fertility projections.
How Rising Education for Women Is Shaping the Global Population - Facts So Romantic | Kiki Sanford | August 19, 2020 | NautilusHistorically, there has been a very strong relationship between the number of children per woman and education and contraceptives access.
How Rising Education for Women Is Shaping the Global Population - Facts So Romantic | Kiki Sanford | August 19, 2020 | Nautilus
In a best-case scenario they cover the mechanics of reproduction, STD awareness, and contraceptive use.
The Next Frontier of Sex Ed: How Porn Twists Teens’ Brains | Aurora Snow | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTInaccurate label notwithstanding, Plan B is classified by the FDA as a contraceptive.
And women use contraceptive medicines and devices for all kinds of reasons, not just contraception.
The four contraceptive methods at issue are abortofacients.
This language is virtually identical to many oral contraceptive labels.
Why Can’t the FDA Fix Outdated Birth Control Labels? | Tiffany Stanley | March 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTVitamin B complex, vitamin C—and, finally, half a dozen highly questionable contraceptive pills?
Inside John Barth | William W. StuartThe notoriously "unsafe" character of the contraceptive measures has only diminished this fear, not completely allayed it.
The Nervous Housewife | Abraham MyersonThat contraceptive measures have come to stay; that they are increasing in use, the declining birth rate absolutely evidences.
The Nervous Housewife | Abraham MyersonWe recommend the consideration of the licensing of the importation of certain contraceptive goods.
There is no known contraceptive which is simple, inexpensive, and 100 per cent.
British Dictionary definitions for contraceptive
/ (ˌkɒntrəˈsɛptɪv) /
relating to or used for contraception; able or tending to prevent impregnation
any device that prevents or tends to prevent conception
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Scientific definitions for contraceptive
[ kŏn′trə-sĕp′tĭv ]
A substance or device capable of preventing pregnancy.
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