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Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Reproductive Control Agents > Contraceptive Agents
Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Therapeutic Uses > Reproductive Control Agents > Contraceptive Agents

Preferred term

Contraceptive Agents  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Contraceptive
  • Contraceptives

Note

  • chemical, not mechanical (= CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES); pregnancy despite use = CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS with no qualifiers, not with /adv eff; note entry term CONTRACEPTIVE EFFECT: use only for the contraceptive effect of a chemical substance

Scope note

  • Chemical substances that prevent or reduce the probability of CONCEPTION.

History note

  • 67

In other languages

  • kemialliset ehkäisyvälineet

    Finnish

  • kemiallinen ehkäisyvalmiste
  • kemiallinen ehkäisyväline
  • kemiallinen kontraseptiivi
  • kemialliset ehkäisyvalmisteet
  • kemialliset kontraseptiivit
  • Preventivmedel

    Swedish

  • Antikonceptionsmedel

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003270

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