Norplant
AmericanEtymology
Origin of Norplant
First recorded in 1985–90
Example Sentences
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Norplant, which releases a hormone for five years, is available in five nations.
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Norplant consists of six progestin-filled silicone tubes, each about the size of a matchstick.
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A. Because he felt that my Norplant decision was wrong.
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And face it, nobody in their right mind would seek the kind of lacerating publicity this Norplant decision has generated.
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Wyeth- Ayerst, for example, insists that the large profits it has made from Premarin and Inderal helped finance the revolutionary Norplant implantable ; contraceptive that it introduced in 1990.
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