Hormonal methods
What Hormonal methods means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Methods that use hormones, including oral contraceptives, the injection, implant, skin patch, and hormone-releasing intrauterine devices.
Methods such as the combined pill, mini-pill, implants, injections and patches that thicken cervical mucus and often stop ovulation.
Topics that use Hormonal methods
- Contraception (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- evaluate
- Fertilisation
- Fertility awareness
- FSH
- Non-hormonal methods
- Ovulation
- Spermicidal agents
- sterilisation
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