Hypertext Webster Gateway: "menses"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Menses \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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 [syn: {menstruation},
{catamenia}, {period}, {flow}]
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