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Menses

Menses Meaning & Definition
Menses Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Menses?

[n] 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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Menses: catamenia | flow | menstruation | period

Related Terms | Find terms related to Menses:

See Also | discharge | emission | expelling | hypermenorrhea | menorrhagia | oligomenorrhea

Menses In Webster's Dictionary

\Men"ses\, n. pl. [L. mensis month, pl. menses months, and the monthly courses of women. Cf. {Month}.] (Med.) The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.

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