menstruation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
    flow; period; menstruum; menses; 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`stru*a"tion noun
Definitions
  1. The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.

Webster 1913