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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The monthly flow of blood and cellular debris from the uterus that begins at puberty in women and the females of other primates. In women, menses ceases at menopause. Also called catamenia.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Catamenial or monthly discharges; a periodic constitutional flow of blood or bloody fluid from the mucous coat of the uterus of a female, as a woman, monkey, bitch, or other mammal. The menses occur in connection with ovulation, of which they are generally a sign. They normally occur in women thirteen times a year, or at intervals of a lunar month, whence the name.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The discharge of blood mixed with pieces of cellular tissue from the uterus of a female out through her vagina, which occurs roughly every month; menstrual flow.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

Etymologies

  1. Latin mensis ("month"), the plural being menses ("months"), corresponding to the monthly courses of women. Confer month. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin mēnsēs, pl. of mēnsis, month; see mē-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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