Hypertext Webster Gateway: "menstruation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Menstruation \Men`stru*a"tion\, n.
The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of
menstruating.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
menstruation
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: {menses},
{catamenia}, {period}, {flow}]
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