WordNet
n. a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception [syn: pill, birth control pill, oral contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive, anovulatory drug, anovulant]
Usage examples of "contraceptive pill".
Three abortions in two years and the belated knowledge that her days on the contraceptive pill had put her, as far as cancer was concerned, in one of the highest-risk categories of all.
Somehow Nat, the midwestern earthmother blond, had taken a contraceptive pill and, even with Doc watching, had avoided swallowing it.
Forgetting to take a228crucial contraceptive pill, or even a faulty condom, couldhave been sufficient to put her in the club.
Somehow Nat, the midwestern earthmother blond, had taken a contraceptive pill and, even with Doe watching, had avoided swallowing it.
To the chief medical officer she declared she'd been taking standard iron tablets, amino acids and the contraceptive pill.
During the nineteen-eighties, events had taken a progressive turn, and a contraceptive pill had at last gone some way towards being accepted.
If a woman was regularly on the contraceptive pill her periods stopped for a while.