BIRTH CONTROL PILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does birth control pill mean? 

• BIRTH CONTROL PILL (noun)
  The noun BIRTH CONTROL PILL has 1 sense:

1. a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception

  Familiarity information: BIRTH CONTROL PILL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIRTH CONTROL PILL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

anovulant; anovulatory drug; birth control pill; contraceptive pill; oral contraceptive; oral contraceptive pill; pill

Hypernyms ("birth control pill" is a kind of...):

birth control device; contraceptive; contraceptive device; preventative; preventive; prophylactic device (an agent or device intended to prevent conception)

Meronyms (substance of "birth control pill"):

Lipo-Lutin; progesterone (a steroid hormone (trade name Lipo-Lutin) produced in the ovary; prepares and maintains the uterus for pregnancy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "birth control pill"):

Demulen (trade name for an oral contraceptive)

Enovid (trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and norethynodrel)

Loestrin (trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norethindrone)

Lo/Ovral (trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel)

Micronor (trade name for and oral contraceptive containing the progestin compound norethindrone)

Modicon (trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norethindrone)

Norinyl (trade name for an oral contraceptive containing norethindrone and mestranol)

Norlestrin (trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norethindrone)

Nor-Q-D (trade name for an oral contraceptive containing norethindrone)

Ovocon (trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norethindrone)

Ovral (trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel)

Ovrette (trade name for an oral contraceptive containing norgestrel)

Ovulen (trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and a progestin compound)

 Context examples 

Most birth control pills include estrogen and progestin.

(Birth control pill, NCI Dictionary)

Birth control pills can help prevent new cysts.

(Ovarian Cysts, Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health)

A device designed to prevent conception through local or systemic effect, such as a barrier contraceptive, an intrauterine device, or a means of preventing ovulation (e.g., birth control pill).

(Contraceptive Device, NCI Thesaurus)

You're at higher risk if you smoke, have many children, use birth control pills for a long time, or have HIV infection.

(Cervical Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Other risks include being overweight, using hormone replacement therapy (also called menopausal hormone therapy), taking birth control pills, drinking alcohol, not having children or having your first child after age 35 or having dense breasts.

(Breast Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Also called birth control pill.

(Oral contraceptive pill, NCI Dictionary)

Birth control methods may work in a number of different ways. These include: • Preventing sperm from getting to the eggs - condoms, diaphragms and intrauterine devices (IUDs) work this way • Keeping the woman's ovaries from releasing eggs that could be fertilized - birth control pills work this way • Sterilization, which permanently prevents a woman from getting pregnant or a man from being able to get a woman pregnant

(Birth Control, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)