MENSES
\mˈɛnsɪz], \mˈɛnsɪz], \m_ˈɛ_n_s_ɪ_z]\
Definitions of MENSES
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
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The sanguineous evacuation from the uterus, Sanguis menstruus, Menstrual Blood, the monthly occurrence of which constitutes menstruation or monthly illness. The first appearance of the menuesmenophania- is usually preceded by the discharge of a fluid whitish matter from the vagina; by nervous excitement, and by vague pains and heaviness in the loins and thighs; numbness of the limbs, tumefaction and hardness of the breast, &c. More or less indisposition and irritability also precede each successive recurrence of the menstrual flux. In temperate climates, each period, ordinarily continues from three to six days; and the quantity lost varies from four to eight ounces. The menses continue to flow from the period of puberty till the age of 45 or 50. At the term of its natural cessation, the flux becomes irregular; and this irregularity is occasionally accompanied with symptoms of dropsy, glandular tumours, &c. constituting the Paramenia cessatio'nis of Good, and what is called the critical time or turn or change of life; yet it does not appear that the mortality is increased by it. With the immediate cause of menstruation we are unacquainted. We express only our ignorance, when we assert it to depend upon periodicity; the discharge comes from the vessels of the uterus and vagina, and differs from ordinary blood by its peculiar odour, and by its not coagulating. It is evidently connected with the condition of the ovaries, and- it has been supposed- with the periodical discharge of ova from them. It is arrested, as a general principle, during pregnancy and lactation. In warm climates, women usually begin to menstruate early, and cease sooner than in the temperate regions. The quantity lost is also greater. In the colder regions, the reverse of this holds as a general rule.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
