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BIRTH PREVENTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Limiting the number of children born
Synonyms:
birth control; birth prevention; family planning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("birth prevention" is a kind of...):
planning (an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "birth prevention"):
coitus interruptus; onanism; pulling out; withdrawal; withdrawal method (a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation)
natural family planning (any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs; coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle)
contraception; contraceptive method (birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery)
