natural_family_planning (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *natural family planning*:
NOUN	act	natural family planning	any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs

English > *natural family planning*: 1 sense > noun 1, act
Meaning	Any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs; coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle.
Narrower	basal body temperature method of family planning, basal body temperature method	natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred / inferred / inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation
	ovulation method of family planning, ovulation method	natural family planning in which the fertile period is inferred / inferred / inferred from changes in the character and quantity of cervical mucus
	rhythm method of birth control, rhythm method, rhythm, calendar method of birth control, calendar method	natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle)
Broader	birth control, birth prevention, family planning	limiting the number of children born
Catalan	planificació familiar natural

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