menstruation; menses; menstruum; catamenia; period; flow




the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

"the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle

Type of:
  • discharge; emission; expelling

Types:
  • menorrhagia; hypermenorrhea
  • oligomenorrhea


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