| natural family planning | any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs, coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle |
birth control
birth prevention
family planning | limiting the number of children born |
basal body temperature method of family planning
basal body temperature method | natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation |
ovulation method of family planning
ovulation method | natural family planning in which the fertile period is inferred from changes in the character and quantity of cervical mucus, ovulation is marked by an increase in mucus that becomes sticky and then clearer and slippery |
| planning | the act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise |
city planning
town planning
urban planning | determining and drawing up plans for the future physical arrangement and condition of a community |
| planning | an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action, the planning was more fun than the trip itself |
planning
preparation
provision | the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening, his planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties |
regional anatomy
topographic anatomy
topology | the study of anatomy based on regions or divisions of the body and emphasizing the relations between various structures (muscles and nerves and arteries etc.) in that region |
| urban planning | the branch of architecture dealing with the design and organization of urban space and activities |
rural free delivery
RFD | free government delivery of mail in outlying country areas |
| planning commission | a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments |
advisory board
planning board | a board appointed to advise the chief administrator |
| country rural area | an area outside of cities and towns, his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country |
regional anesthesia
regional anaesthesia | loss of sensation in a region of the body produced by application of an anesthetic agent to all the nerves supplying that region (as when an epidural anesthetic is administered to the pelvic region during childbirth) |
regional enteritis
regional ileitis
Crohn's disease | a serious chronic and progressive inflammation of the ileum producing frequent bouts of diarrhea with abdominal pain and nausea and fever and weight loss |
| rural | living in or characteristic of farming or country life, rural people, large rural households, unpaved rural roads, an economy that is basically rural |
| regional | related or limited to a particular region, a regional dialect |
| rural | of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city, rural electrification, rural free delivery |
| regional | characteristic of a region, regional flora |