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US
/ˌmɛnstɹuˈeɪʃən/
]
[ UK /mˌɛnstɹuːˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /mˌɛnstɹuːˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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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 menstruation In A Sentence
- For example, if your diet is deficient in vitamin A, vitamin B complex, vitamin C, bioflavonoids or vitamin E, a heavier than normal menstruation could result.
- I'll touch you, all the same, even if they hurt, because I too have to do what I want to doas soon as your menstruation is finished. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
- The course will present an in-depth study of the general precepts for menstruation and lochia and the precepts specific to lochia, as well as a detailed study of the chronic annulment of ablution.
- The findings have important implications, as the age of menarche - when menstruation begins - has fallen by two years in the past century.
- As one researcher writes in a study on moods and menstruation in college students, 'negative behavior exhibited premenstrually is perceived as evidence for the prevailing negative stereotype of female emotional behavior while positive behavior is ignored as something for which biology is irrelevant.' PMS
- In the Philippines, it is used as an emmenagogue (an agent to induce menstruation).
- Her periods are short, her menses scant, and before each menstruation she experiences low back pain.
- Men's fear of the uterus and menstruation may be problematic but more devastating by far are women's own negative attitudes.
- vicarious menstruation
- Topics will include menstruation, sexuality, pregnancy and childbirth in a cultural context.
