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SURGICAL CONTRACEPTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surgical contraception mean? 

SURGICAL CONTRACEPTION (noun)
  The noun SURGICAL CONTRACEPTION has 1 sense:

1. contraception by surgical sterilizationplay

  Familiarity information: SURGICAL CONTRACEPTION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SURGICAL CONTRACEPTION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Contraception by surgical sterilization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("surgical contraception" is a kind of...):

sterilisation; sterilization (the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce))

contraception; contraceptive method (birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "surgical contraception"):

tubal ligation (a sterilization procedure with women; both Fallopian tubes are tied in two places and the tubes removed in between the ligations)

vasectomy (surgical procedure that removes all or part of the vas deferens (usually as a means of sterilization); is sometimes reversible)


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