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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Catamenia \Cat`a*me"nia\ (k[a^]t`[.a]*m[=e]"n[i^]*[.a]), n. pl [NL., fr Gr ta` katamh`nia.] (Med.) The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: catamenia 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}, {menses}, {period}, {flow}]
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