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单词 mucothermal
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mucothermal
mucothermal adj.
Brit. /ˌmjuːkə(ʊ)ˈθəːml/
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U.S. /ˌmjukoʊˈθərm(ə)l/
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/ˌmjukəˈθərm(ə)l/
designating or relating to a natural method of birth control or family planning in which observations of the appearance and consistency of cervical mucus are used together with measurements of body temperature to identify a woman's fertile period; cf. symptothermal adj.
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1983 S. Kitzinger Woman's Experience of Sex vii. 193 I am the type of person who likes to be in control of my body and know what it is doing all the time, and the muco-thermal method goes along with that.
1989 J. A. B. Collier & J. M. Longmore Oxf. Handbk. Clin. Specialties (ed. 2) i. 60 Natural (mucothermal) methods. These make use of the physiological phenomena that the basal temperature of a woman rises after ovulation, and that the cervical mucus changes from being sticky and thick at the fertile mid-cycle to become thinner after ovulation.
1993 Adv. Contraception 9 269 In group B (muco-thermal method) there were 12 UIP [= unintended pregnancies] in 1352 cycles with a pregnancy rate of 10.6.
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