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the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
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
the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation
a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped
How To Use menses In A Sentence
- This can bring on different aspects of pain, such as dysmenorrhea - painful, sometimes disabling cramps during menses; pain may get worse over time (progressive pain), also lower back pains linked to the pelvis, chronic pelvic pain - typically accompanied by lower back pain or abdominal pain, dyspareunia - painful sex, dysuria - urinary urgency, frequency, and sometimes painful voiding. Robyn N. Cohen: Why Endometriosis Needs More Media Attention
- Spiritualem animam a reliquis distinctam tuetur, etiam in cadavere inhaerentem post mortem per aliquot menses. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Firstly, only a small percentage of women ovulate exactly 14 days before the onset of menses.
- Most commonly, breast pain is associated with the menstrual cycle (cyclic mastalgia) and is most severe before the menses.
- In the recent past, she had experienced heavy menses with passage of clots, and she had occasionally required transfusion.
- A strong infusion of the tea with brewer's yeast treats delayed menses.
- Her menses ceased; her mammæ became engorged and discharged a serous lactescent fluid; her belly enlarged, and both she and her physician felt fetal movements in her abdomen. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- Ulcera haec aliquando infra sex vel octo menses ipsa se cohaerent; plerumque autem incitamentorum et vi causticorum ad locum adhibita infra hebdomadas tres sanantur. An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
- Primary dysmenorrhea, which is defined as painful menses in women with normal pelvic anatomy, usually begins during adolescence.
- Each month was a roller coaster of emotions: hope and then, when my menses inevitably began, pain, despair and desolation.