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Menstruation   Listen
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Menstruation  n.  The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Menstruation" Quotes from Famous Books



... should know in advance enough of the general facts of menstruation so that the onset of the period may not cause, as it now does in thousands of cases, shock and sometimes dangerous errors of conduct. They should also know that the sexual nature of men is active and aggressive instead of passive and defensive as in the woman; and that hence the woman must ...
— The Social Emergency - Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals • Various

... the most common of the so-called female disorders, which seems to be the lot of the majority of women, is dysmenorrhoea or painful menstruation. This is not a disease in itself, but the symptom of various disorders. A woman in normal health should not suffer at her menstrual period; so if she does suffer it shows there is something wrong. The natural thing for anyone to do who had dysmenorrhoea would be first to find the cause of ...
— Herself - Talks with Women Concerning Themselves • E. B. Lowry

... the "Muenchener Medizinische Wochenschrift," 1916, in which he gives information regarding the conception of between two and three hundred children born during the war. He finds that the likelihood of fertilisation increases from the first day of menstruation, reaching the highest point six days later, the fertile period remains almost at the same height till the 12th or 13th day, and then declines gradually until the 22nd day, after which there is ...
— Conception Control and Its Effects on the Individual and the Nation • Florence E. Barrett



Words linked to "Menstruation" :   flow, discharge, catamenia, menorrhagia, period, expelling, menstruate, oligomenorrhea, emission



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