Meaning & Definition of Menstruation in English
English⟶
Menstruation
/mɛnstrueʃən/
noun
1. 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
synonym:
- menstruation,
- menses,
- menstruum,
- catamenia,
- period,
- flow