MENOSTASIS
\mˈɛnəstˌasiz], \mˈɛnəstˌasiz], \m_ˈɛ_n_ə_s_t_ˌa_s_i_z]\
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This word, according to some, signifies the retention of the menses and their accumulation in the uterus. According to others; it means the acute pain which, in some females, precedes each appearance of the menses: a pain which has been presumed to proceed from the statis of blood in the capillary vessels of the uterus.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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