Sentence examples for cervical cap from inspiring English sources
noun
A small, latex or silicone, contraceptive device that fits over the cervix and stays in place either by suction, like Prentif or by surface viscosity, like Oves.
Here are some questions to consider when choosing a secondary method of protection: Are you comfortable inserting a diaphragm or cervical cap?
In the 48 hours before the test, a woman should not have sexual intercourse or put anything in the vagina, including tampons, douches, a cervical cap, diaphragm, cream or foam.
The diaphragm and the cervical cap, widely used before the advent of the birth control pill and the IUD, have once again become popular because of the health risks associated with the newer methods.
At Sanger's trial, during which the judge waved a cervical cap from the bench, Sanger hoped to argue that the law preventing the distribution of contraception was unconstitutional: exposing women, against their will, to the danger of dying in childbirth violated a woman's right to life.
Tony Blair, February 1998 · Even God doesn't like the Millennium Dome... Daily Mirror, June 1999 [when it was hit by lightning] · Have you ever noticed that the Millennium Dome looks like a giant cervical cap?' Kathy Lette, Daily Telegraph, June 1999 2000 and beyond · A triumph of insignificance.
All barrier devices prevent sperm from entering the uterus by sheathing the penis with a condom, by covering the uterine cervix with a diaphragm or cervical cap (used with a spermicidal cream or jelly), or by inserting a female condom (vaginal pouch) or a vaginal sponge permeated with a spermicide.
Condoms can break, diaphragms and cervical caps can become dislodged, IUDs can be expelled unknowingly and birth control pills forgotten.
Other methods of contraception that had been developed by then included oral contraceptives, intrauterine coils, diaphragms and cervical caps.
Examples of physical barriers are male and female condoms, diaphragms and cervical caps.
After the vulcanization of rubber, in the eighteen-forties, condoms and ill-fitting cervical caps became the most common forms of birth control.
Group 1: Barrier Methods Barrier methods include male condoms, female condoms, cervical caps and shields, vaginal sponges, diaphragms and spermicides.
