anovulant
/aˈnɒvjʊl(ə)nt
/Medicine
adjective
(Chiefly of a drug) preventing ovulation.The oral anovulant contraceptive pill had been developed privately with her assistance....
- A renewed challenge to the Church's teaching came with the approval of the anovulant pill in 1960.
- In the 1960s, the Church faced increasing pressure regarding the use of contraceptive means with the marketing of the anovulant pill.
noun
An anovulant drug.The common factor is that all these are anovulants and therefore are equally good at stopping ectopics and intrauterine conceptions....
- For these reasons, the therapeutic use of anovulants is not an act that would violate the first condition of the principle of the double effect.
- Even when taking contraceptives or anovulants, the number of ovules that we ourselves can use reduces gradually.
Origin
1960s: from an-1 + ovul(ation) + -ant.