have your tubes tied
informalIf a woman has her tubes tied, she has a medical operation in which her fallopian tubes are closed to stop her eggs being released so that she cannot become pregnant.
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Obstetrics: contraception
- cap
- coil
- coitus interruptus
- condom
- contraception
- contraceptive
- Dutch cap
- family planning
- Femidom
- French letter
- johnny
- loop
- minipill
- morning-after pill
- prophylactic
- rhythm method
- safe sex
- spermicidal
- spermicide
- sterilization
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