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menstruation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | catamenia, flow, menses, menstruum, period |
| Type of | discharge, emission, expelling |
| Has types | hypermenorrhea, menorrhagia, oligomenorrhea |
| Derivation | menstruate |
the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation.
Examples of menstruation
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Menstruation is often seen as embarrassing or disgusting and is rarely discussed.
From the guardian.co.uk
I have a good friend, a college professor, whose menstruation suddenly stopped.
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Menopause is defined as the discontinuation of menstruation for one year or more.
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Breast swelling and discomfort may be caused by binge eating during menstruation.
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In the past, menstruation was often viewed as a sign of uncleanliness or shame.
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When a child is conceived with no prior menstruation, he or she is named Ilori.
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If the egg does not become fertilized and does not implant menstruation begins.
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An additional 38% found PMS that lasted into menstruation or another cycle phase.
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Finally, calendar-based methods assume that all bleeding is true menstruation.
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- 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 ...
- (menstruate) undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age of 11"
- Menstruation is the shedding of the uterine lining (endometrium). It occurs on a regular basis in reproductive-age females of certain mammal species. ...
- The menstrual cycle is a series of physiological changes that can occur in fertile females. Overt menstruation (where there is blood flow from the uterus through the vagina) occurs primarily in humans and close evolutionary relatives such as chimpanzees. ...
- The periodic discharging of the menses, the flow of blood and cells from the lining of the uterus in females of humans and other primates
- (Menstrual) cups are not commonly used; the vast majority of women in Western countries use disposable tampons or disposable sanitary napkins (UK: towels).
- (Menstrual) cycles vary in length from an average of 29 days in orangutans to an average of 37 days in chimpanzees.
- (menstruating) The blood flow from the uterus that happens about every 4 weeks in a woman.
- A cyclical process of the endometrium shedding its lining, along with discharge from the cervix and vagina, from the vaginal opening. ...
