menses
men·ses
noun
1.
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
Origin
From Latin mēnsis (“month”), the plural being mēnsēs (“months”), corresponding to the approximately month-long span of the menstrual cycle. Compare month.
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