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menstruation |
2 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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