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Birth control
The practice of using artificial means to prevent or terminate a pregnancy.
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laminaria
Parenting; Birth control
A small rod-shaped piece of dried seaweed; when placed within the cervix, a laminaria causes it to gradually dilate (widen). The species of seaweed serving this purpose is Laminaria digitata.
last menstrual period
Parenting; Birth control
By convention, pregnancies are dated in weeks starting from the first day of a woman's last menstrual period (LMP). If her menstrual periods are regular and ovulation occurs on day 14 of her cycle, ...
life support
Parenting; Birth control
1. A therapy or device designed to preserve someone's life when an essential bodily system is not doing so. Life support may, for example, involve enteric feeding (by a tube), total parenteral ...
surgery
Parenting; Birth control
The word "surgery" has multiple meanings. It is the branch of medicine concerned with diseases and conditions which require or are amenable to operative procedures. Surgery is the work done by a ...
syphilis
Parenting; Birth control
A sexually transmitted disease caused by a microscopic organism called a spirochete.
syringe
Parenting; Birth control
A device used in medicine to inject fluid into or withdraw fluid from the body. Medical syringes consist of a needle attached to a hollow cylinder that is fitted with a sliding plunger. The ...
testicles
Parenting; Birth control
A pair of male sex glands that produce sperm. The testicles are located under the penis in a pouch called the scrotum. The testicles are also referred to as the testes or gonads.
