Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of reducing or eliminating fertility; contraceptive.
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- adjective That reduces
fertility - adjective
contraceptive
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- adjective capable of preventing conception or impregnation
Etymologies
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Examples
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A reversible antifertility vaccine for men and women is also under development.
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One of these foods is peas, and its history as an antifertility food goes back at least as far as 1949.
Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000
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Ayurvedic herbal preparations are also used to treat obesity, and as antifertility treatments.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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Ayurvedic herbal preparations are also used to treat obesity, and as antifertility treatments.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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Back here in the United States, studies conducted in the 1990s at the University of Illinois helped establish the antifertility effects of pea-oil—so much so that it is now being studied as a possible natural contraceptive.
Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000
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The biological model used in stage (c) to establish an antifertility activity, was a mouse.
Chapter 7 1991
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A similar strategy was used in the evaluation of a traditional antifertility preparation.
Chapter 7 1991
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Insect antifertility and antifeedant allelochemics in Adhatota vasica.
Chapter 10 1990
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"We believe that modern-day Hitlers have deliberately adulterated the oral polio vaccines with antifertility drugs and … viruses which are known to cause HIV and AIDS," prominent physician Datti Ahmed told journalists at the time.
Scientific American 2010
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(c) a traditional antifertility agent with sustained action.
Chapter 7 1991
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