Concept selected: Hormonal contraceptive
- Definition
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Various contraceptive methods that release hormones (usually estrogen and progestin) which prevents pregnancy either by stopping ovulation (the release of an egg from one of the ovaries) or increasing the thickness of the mucus in the cervix which prevents the passage of sperm
- Source
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Fertility Survey. Methodology
- Topic
- Statistical operations (links to the Inventory of Statistical Operations)
- Concepts associated