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- adjective Alternative form of
intrauterine .
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Examples
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They should be “advised that emergency contraception is more effective the sooner it is used” and that an intra-uterine device is more effective in an emergency but can also be used long term, NICE said.
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Moreover, 68 percent of Catholic women and 74 percent of evangelical Christians said they had used a 'highly effective method' of contraception, such as birth control pills or intra-uterine devices.
HUFFPOST HILL - Congress' Manic Last-Minute Debt Maneuvering Eliot Nelson 2011
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Also, however, you can see your own umbilical cord, pressing against his face like some sort of intra-uterine alien life form that might just develop a consciousness and a will of its own and creep out of your nether regions and strangle you in the night.
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Through ambiguous language, the regulations could deeply undermine long-established principles of medical ethics and responsibility by, for example, allowing providers to conflate widely used contraceptives devices, such as birth control pills and intra-uterine devices, with abortion.
Jodi Jacobson: Unconscionable Policies, Dangerous Politics 2009
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She conflates third world medical care (Russia, thirty years ago) with first world care (Toronto, today) and appears to not even notice the spectacular difference between her own two examples (life-threatening intra-uterine demise due to negligence versus a modest increase in the difficulty of performing an elective surgery due to a scheduling delay).
Julia Gorin: Americans Want Universal Access to Graveyards 2009
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It's idiotic, and removes every form of birth control that prevents intra-uterine attachment of the zygote -- but the meta message is STRENGTH.
McCain: I'm Questioning Obama's Patriotism? Moi? Never! 2009
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Another idea is that differing intra-uterine environments in MZ twins can lead to discordant consequences.
Dan Agin: More Than Genes IV: Epigenetics, the Womb, and Mental Illness 2009
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In the USA 70% of congenital cerebral palsy results from brain injury during intra-uterine development. 10% of children acquire cerebral palsy after birth from brain damage in the first few months/years of life and 20% of cases are diagnosed due to brain injury during the birthing process.
War For Donors Heats Up Between Clinton And Obama; Barack Has "Light Touch," Top Donor Says 2009
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The new technique according to them is an improvement over the existing ART Procedures which has life threatening risks by resulting in complications such as miscarriage, intra-uterine growth restrictions and pre-term births.
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Everyone in the study had a type of fertility treatment called intra-uterine insemination, in which prepared sperm from the man is injected directly into the woman's womb.
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