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Synset omw.13513747-n

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Lemmas: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow

Definition: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; ; --Hippocrates; --Aristotle

Examples:

• the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation
• a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped
• 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