adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
menstrual period
the menstrual cycle (= relating to the blood that women lose each month )
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Illness can disrupt your menstrual cycle.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
blood
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But the association of menstrual blood pollutes her and she loses for ever the pristine purity of a female child.
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This may refer to the menstrual blood and semen consumed sacramentally by some Gnostic groups.
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The causes of endometriosis are not completely known, but seem to be linked to an abnormal flow of menstrual blood .
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Female menstrual blood became endowed with magical power and often it was harmful.
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Clearly, menstrual blood had somehow been connected with the unfertilized egg and was confused with the abortion of a foetus.
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Where blood has a significance, and menstrual blood negatively so, women are granted a kind of power.
cycle
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Also, the menstrual cycle of women can seriously disrupt fluid levels, causing in some cases increases of several pounds.
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Just knowing that one is participating in a study of the menstrual cycle can increase reports of negative symptoms by 80 percent.
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Sometimes a mood, or a phase of the menstrual cycle , will bring about a definite aversion to keeping up appearances.
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When women experience problems with their menstrual cycles , such as irregular periods, doctors often give them hormones.
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Her own menstrual cycle , including its uncomfortable drawing to a close, had been strictly her own affair.
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The mean menstrual cycle length was 28 days.
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But confusion reigned over the idea of the menstrual cycle .
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Smoking was reported by 260 women. inseminations and follow up Intracervical inseminations were applied in subsequent menstrual cycles .
period
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The danger time for development of tubal complications with gonorrhoea is the menstrual period .
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Five days after the end of the last menstrual period .
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Not a menstrual period in the proper sense.
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When arranging your next smear, do not make an appointment during your menstrual period . 4.
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Twelve is the present average age for the menarche - or start of menstrual periods , which marks puberty.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But confusion reigned over the idea of the menstrual cycle.
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Her own menstrual cycle, including its uncomfortable drawing to a close, had been strictly her own affair.
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Just knowing that one is participating in a study of the menstrual cycle can increase reports of negative symptoms by 80 percent.
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Of 225 new patients attending our adolescent gynaecology clinic in 1992, 167 presented with menstrual disturbances.
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This may refer to the menstrual blood and semen consumed sacramentally by some Gnostic groups.
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Uncomfortable though these may be, they do not constitute a mental illness, and they are menstrual , not premenstrual problems.
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Women even had to allow some one else to put on and change their menstrual pads.