CATAMENIA
\kˌate͡ɪmˈiːni͡ə], \kˌateɪmˈiːniə], \k_ˌa_t_eɪ_m_ˈiː_n_iə]\
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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
By Princeton University
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Menses-c. Alba, Leucorrhoea.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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