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French: anticonceptif

English translation: Contraceptive measures







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French term or phrase:anticonceptif
English translation:Contraceptive measures
Entered by:Anna Maria Augustin
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Medical - Insurance / liability contract
French term or phrase: anticonceptif
Features in a list of medical products including vaccines and drugs. Contraceptives features as a separate item. I have been wondering if it relates to the morning after pill?
Amy Grieve
United Kingdom
Clarification request(s) and response
Carmen Schultz: 10:52pm Jun 27, 2005: Without more context, it will be hard to pin it down to the morning after pill as it is too generic.
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Amy Grieve (asker): 6:37am Jun 28, 2005: There is absolutely no more context - it is simply a list within an insurance contract.
Anna Maria Augustin: 9:26pm Jul 5, 2005: Gosh Amy, only 2 points after all that research I did? -

Contraceptive measures
Explanation:
Birth control. The morning after pill could be included.

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Note added at 43 mins (2005-06-27 23:32:37 GMT)
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Emergency contraceptive method:

Emergency Contraception: The Morning-After Pill
The American Life League advises against using emergency contraception.
www.all.org/issues/bc05.htm - 6k - Cached - Similar pages

Morning-after pill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The phrase morning-after pill is a misnomer that is falling out of use due to ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning-after_pill - 23k - 26 Jun 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

Wisconsin moves to restrict \'morning after\' pill - Women\'s Health ...
The Wisconsin Assembly approved a ban on the so-called morning-after pill on
state college campuses, a restriction that would be the first in the nation if ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8257698/ - 50k - 26 Jun 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

CNN.com - Panel backs over-the-counter \'morning-after\' pill - Dec ...
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted Tuesday to recommend emergency
contraception -- or the morning-after pill -- be available ...
www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/16/morning.after.pill/ - 49k - Cached - Similar pages

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Anna Maria Augustin
France
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5contraceptive
Alicia Casal
5Contraceptive measures
Anna Maria Augustin
4 +1SEECarmen Schultz


  


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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
SEE

Explanation:
Anticonceptif is the general term for contraceptives and it could relate to anything from the pill to IUDs. Without more context, it will be hard to pin it down to the morning after pill as it is too generic.


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The morning after pill is specifically called \"la pilule du lendemain\":
Moreover, anticonceptif (in masculine form) is an adjective; usually it is in the feminine form as ANTICONCEPTIVE\' when referring to pills that stop conception by hormonal method. The term as you have is being use more than likely as an adjective that modifies a masculine noun. Can you give us more context?
La pilule du lendemain - Translate this page
LES BASES DE LA CONTRACEPTION. LES MÉTHODES REGULIERES DE CONTRACEPTION. Les contraceptifs hormonaux Les pilules associant un oestrogène et un progestatif (hormone proche de la progestérone) bloquent l\'ovulation. ... surtout un épaississement de la glaire cervicale, la rendant imperméable aux spermatozoïdes et modifient la ... par la prise le plus rapidement possible de la pilule du lendemain ...www.piluledulendemain.com - 13k - Cached - More from this site - Save - Block
PAV - La pilule du lendemain - Translate this page
ACADÉMIE PONTIFICALE POUR LA VIE. COMMUNIQUÉ SUR LA \"PILULE DU LENDEMAIN\" ... les pharmacies italiennes ce que l\'on appelle la pilule du lendemain, un produit chimique (de type hormonal) qui ... fondement dans la mesure où la pilule du lendemain a une action ...www.academiavita.com/testi+zip/PAV/pillgiordopo-fra.htm - 9k - Cached - More from this site - Save - Block
Cocq-sida : La Pilule Du Lendemain Contre Le Sida N\'existe Pas
This article from Canadian Corporate News is in the HighBeam Research Library. Read the article preview or sign up with your credit card to access the full text of millions of articles from thousands of publications.www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?docid=1P1:21275972&refid=... - More from this site - Save - Block
Sgen-CFDT: Pilule du lendemain - Translate this page
Pilule du lendemain. Retour à l\'accueil. création, le 6 octobre 2000. Pilule du lendemain, où en est-on? ... à la décision du Conseil d\'État annulant la circulaire de Ségolène Royal sur le Norlévo, la pilule du lendemain. ... 968 ont obtenu la \"pilule du lendemain\". Sur les 437 ...www.sgen-cfdt.org/actsoc/PDL.html - 28k - Cached - More from this site - Save - Block
L\'effet de la pilule - Translate this page
... faites pour redéfinir tous les aspects de la grossesse, et plus particulièrement le moment où celle ... introduction plus rapide du RU486, de la pilule du lendemain, des vaccins anti ...www.trdd.org/ETHMEDF.HTM - More from this site - Save - Block

Carmen Schultz
United States
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree AbdulHameed Al Hadidi
7 hrs
  -> Merci
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Contraceptive measures

Explanation:
Birth control. The morning after pill could be included.

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Note added at 43 mins (2005-06-27 23:32:37 GMT)
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Emergency contraceptive method:

Emergency Contraception: The Morning-After Pill
The American Life League advises against using emergency contraception.
www.all.org/issues/bc05.htm - 6k - Cached - Similar pages

Morning-after pill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The morning-after pill, more properly termed emergency contraceptive pills ...
The phrase morning-after pill is a misnomer that is falling out of use due to ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning-after_pill - 23k - 26 Jun 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

Wisconsin moves to restrict \'morning after\' pill - Women\'s Health ...
The Wisconsin Assembly approved a ban on the so-called morning-after pill on
state college campuses, a restriction that would be the first in the nation if ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8257698/ - 50k - 26 Jun 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

CNN.com - Panel backs over-the-counter \'morning-after\' pill - Dec ...
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted Tuesday to recommend emergency
contraception -- or the morning-after pill -- be available ...
www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/16/morning.after.pill/ - 49k - Cached - Similar pages



Anna Maria Augustin
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 14

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral Carmen Schultz: contraceptives is the same as contraceptive methods (contraceptive methods rather than "meaures" is the more common way of saying it in English). You are not shedding new light on what I had already stated
8 mins
  -> I wasn't trying to. The dictionary says measures!
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55 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
contraceptive

Explanation:
just like that.

Alicia Casal
Argentina
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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