pessaries
- plural of pessary.
Example Sentences
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It is administered using gels, creams, pessaries, tablets or sprays.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2024
Pelvic floor exercises and lifestyle changes can help to improve symptoms, but sometimes medical treatment is needed such as vaginal pessaries or surgery.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024
Frodsham points out that hormonal treatments, from oestrogen tablets in pessaries delivered locally into the vagina to creams and gels, are safe and effective.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2019
Although stem pessaries could prevent pregnancy, they were usually uncomfortable, and often caused infections.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 19, 2016
Make pessaries of figs and the bruised leaves of dog's mercury, rolled up in lint, and if a stronger one is required, make one of myrrh, opopanax, ammoniac, galbanum, sagepanum, mithridate, agaric, coloquintida, tec.
