Catamenia

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Catamenia \Cat`a*me"nia\ (k[a^]t`[.a]*m[=e]"n[i^]*[.a]), n. pl.
     [NL., fr. Gr. ta` katamh`nia.] (Med.)
     The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  catamenia
       n : 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 [syn: {menstruation},
            {menses}, {menstruum}, {period}, {flow}]