menses Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
    menstruation; flow; period; menstruum; catamenia.
    • 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

WordNet

Men"ses noun plural
Etymology
L. mensis month, pl. menses months, and the monthly courses of women. Cf. Month.
Definitions
  1. (Med.) The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.

Webster 1913