Estrogen pills may be prescribed to lessen the symptoms of menopause, like hot flashes. Estrogen is used in birth control pills to prevent conception. The thickness of the endometrium changes along with the female's menstrual cycle. Older women may have an estrogen deficiency as they begin menopause.
An oil platform, offshore platform, or (colloquially) oil rig is a large structure with facilities to drill wells, to extract and process oil and natural gas, or to temporarily store product until it can be brought to shore for refining and marketing.n oil platform, offshore platform, or (colloquially) oil rig is a large structure with facilities to drill wells, to extract and process oil and natural gas, or to temporarily store product until it can be brought to shore for refining and marketing.
Rig used in drilling for oil or gas. Classified under: Nouns denoting man-made objects. Synonyms: drill rig; drilling rig; oil rig; oilrig. Hypernyms (oil rig is a kind of...): rig (gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of oil rig): drilling platform; offshore rig (drilling rig consisting of an offshore platform (floating or fixed to the sea bed) from which many oil wells can be bored radially)