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Norplant

American  
[nawr-plant] / ˈnɔrˌplænt /
Trademark.
  1. a long-term contraceptive for women, usuually effective for 5 years, consisting of several small slow-release capsules of progestin implanted under the skin.


Etymology

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Norplant consists of six progestin-filled silicone tubes, each about the size of a matchstick.

From Time Magazine Archive

A. Because he felt that my Norplant decision was wrong.

From Time Magazine Archive

And face it, nobody in their right mind would seek the kind of lacerating publicity this Norplant decision has generated.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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