IUD

See also: Jud. and Iud.

English edit

The Philippine sense is due to the streetfood being reminiscent of an intrauterine device.

IUD (countable and uncountable, plural IUDs)

Initialism of intrauterine device.
- 2022 May 10, Catherine Pearson, “What to Know Before Getting an IUD”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:
  An IUD is a type of long-acting, reversible contraceptive. The small, T-shaped device is placed in the uterus and left in place to prevent pregnancy for between three and 12 years, depending on the type.
- 2022, Ling Ma, “Tomorrow”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
  That, and her IUD, which had become so deeply embedded in her uterine lining that only the uninsured process of surgical extraction could remove it, had created a false narrative of childlessness.
(psychiatry) Initialism of inhalant use disorder.
- 2012, Paul S. Links, Jamal Y. Ansari, Fatima Fazalullasha, Ravi Shah, “The Relationship of Personality Disorders and Axis I Clinical Disorders”, in Thomas A. Widiger, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Personality Disorders (Oxford Library of Psychology), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 247:
  Typically, respondents with ASPD that use inhalants often exhibited a greater level of antisocialism, and this relationship was intensified further if the inhalant user had an IUD.
(Philippines, informal) barbecued chicken intestine, sold as street food

intrauterine device

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