Menstruation

2 definitions found

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

  Menstruation \Men`stru*a"tion\, n.
     The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of
     menstruating.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  menstruation
       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: {menses},
            {menstruum}, {catamenia}, {period}, {flow}]