Contraception: the deliberate use of artificial methods or other techniques to prevent pregnancy as a consequence of sexual intercourse.
Hormonal Contraception: birth control methods that act on the endocrine system.
Endocrine: relating to or denoting glands which secrete hormones or other products directly into the blood.
Hormones: a regulatory substance produced in an organism and transported in tissue fluids such as blood or sap to stimulate specific cells or tissues into action.
Non-Hormonal: not containing or involving the use of hormones
Condom: a thin rubber sheath worn on a man’s penis during sexual intercourse as a contraceptive or as a protection against infection.
Vasectomy: the surgical cutting and sealing of part of each vas deferens, typically as a means of sterilization.
Reproduction: the production of offspring by a sexual or asexual process.
Cisgender: denoting or relating to a person whose gender identity corresponds with the sex registered for them at birth; not transgender.
Transgender: denoting or relating to a person whose gender identity does not correspond with the sex registered for them at birth.
Hormonal Therapy: the use of hormones in medical treatment.
Clinical Trial: A research study in which one or more human subjects are prospectively assigned to one or more interventions (which may include placebo or other control) to evaluate the effects of those interventions on health-related biomedical or behavioral outcomes.
Testosterone: A steroid hormone that stimulates the development of male secondary sexual characteristics and which is produced in the testes, and, in very much smaller quantities, in the ovaries and adrenal cortex.
Progesterone: A steroid hormone produced by the corpus luteum and the placenta (or made synthetically) which is responsible for the secretory changes in the uterine lining in preparation for implantation of a fertilized ovum and is also necessary for the maintenance of pregnancy.
Over-the-counter: With reference to the obtaining of a pharmaceutical product: without a doctor’s prescription.
Vas Deferens: A fibromuscular tube which carries spermatozoa (sperm) from the epididymis at ejaculation, in man joining the duct from the seminal vesicle at the prostate gland to form the ejaculatory duct.
Epididymis: A long, narrow structure attached to the posterior border of the adjoining outer surface of the testicle, and consisting chiefly of coils of the efferent duct, which emerge from it as the vas deferens.
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