(also coil) noun
a small plastic or metal object placed inside a woman's UTERUS (= where a baby grows before it is born) to stop her becoming pregnant. IUD is an abbreviation for 'intrauterine device'.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for IUD is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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