Used primarily in medical or health-related topics concerning the womb.

Medical Context

A technical term which might not be understood outside professional health circles.

Technical Term

Specify what is intrauterine - device, growth, or pregnancy are different uses.

Specificity Matters

 There are other contraceptives that use multiple approaches at the same time. For example, many IUDs, or intrauterine devices, contain synthetic hormones which suppress ovulation. Some also contain copper, which disable sperm while also making egg implantation in the uterus difficult.

How do contraceptives...

 but the bill comes due later on in life when those other organs, deprived early on, become more susceptible to disease. But that may not be all that's going on. It seems that fetuses are taking cues from the intrauterine environment

Intrauterine