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oral contraceptive
(redirected from anovulant)

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oral contraceptive [′ȯr·əl ‚kän·trə′sep·tiv]
(pharmacology)
Any medication taken by mouth that renders a woman nonfertile as long as the medication is continued.


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He wrote in 1962, "Since theological discussion of the anovulant drugs began some four or more years ago, moralists have never been less than unanimous in their assertions that natural law cannot countenance the use of these progestational steroids for the purpose of contraception as that term is properly understood in the light of papal teaching.
 
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