Birth control

Birth control

The practice of using artificial means to prevent or terminate a pregnancy.

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informed consent

Parenting; Birth control

A process in which a person learns key facts about a clinical trial, including potential risks and benefits, before deciding whether or not to participate in a study. Informed consent continues ...

Harm or hurt. The term "injury" may be applied in medicine to damage inflicted upon oneself as in a hamstring injury or by an external agent on as in a cold injury. The injury may be accidental or ...

intrauterine

Parenting; Birth control

Inside of the womb, or uterus as opposed to extrauterine which is the outside of the uterus.

kidney

Parenting; Birth control

One of a pair of organs located in the right and left side of the abdomen which clear "poisons" from the blood, regulate acid concentration and maintain water balance in the body by excreting urine. ...

kinsey report

Parenting; Birth control

A report entitled "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" published by Alfred Charles Kinsey's in 1948 that attracted great attention.

labor

Parenting; Birth control

Childbirth, the aptly-named experience of delivering the baby and placenta from the uterus to the vagina to the outside world. There are two stages of labor. During the first stage (called the ...

laboratory

Parenting; Birth control

A place for doing tests and research procedures and preparing chemicals, etc. Although "laboratory" looks very like the Latin "laboratorium" (a place to labor, a work place), the word "laboratory" ...