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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A suppression of menses, especially from other causes than age or pregnancy.
Wiktionary
- n. medicine Absence of menstrual discharge.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.
WordNet 3.0
- n. absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow
- n. absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow
Etymologies
- Modern Latin, from Greek ἀ privative prefix + μήν ‘month’ + -ροια ‘flowing’ (from ῥέειν ‘to flow’). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Long-term complications of untreated athletic amenorrhoea include susceptibility to broken bones and premature aging.”
“Where oligomenorrhoea or amenorrhoea have occurred in the past, caution is advised.”
“Prolonged amenorrhoea following the use of oral contraceptives may occur.”
“Changes in menstrual flow spotting, breakthrough bleeding, amenorrhoea temporary intermenstrual bleeding, changes in libido, depressive moods, abdominal cramping or bloating and dizziness may occur.”
“Musheteko: applied to ulcers, and the infusion also internally in amenorrhoea.”
“I learned just this morning that a large factor in amenorrhoea (lack of menstruation) is a calcium deficit that results in underproduced levels of estrogen; thus, I do not bleed.”
“Take a teaspoonful in chamomile tea two or three times a-day in cases of amenorrhoea.”
“Sterility in women may occur from the above-named causes of impotence, together with absence of the uterus and ovaries, or from great debility, syphilis, constant amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, or menorrhagia.”
“Permanganate of potassium and binoxide of manganese are valuable remedies for amenorrhoea, but will not produce abortion.”
“Another symptom which often causes much alarm to the patient is amenorrhoea or deficient or scanty menstruation.”
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hernesheir Amen to that! Some I know would aver. Mar 10, 2011