anovulatory drug

Questions about anovulatory drug

What does anovulatory drug mean?

anovulatory drug means "a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception".

What is another word for anovulatory drug?

Close synonyms include pill, birth control pill, contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anovulatory drug a common word?

anovulatory drug is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.