MENSTRUATION


Meaning of MENSTRUATION in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌmen(t)-strü-ˈwā-shən, men-ˈstrā- ]

noun

Date: circa 1754

: a discharging of blood, secretions, and tissue debris from the uterus that recurs in nonpregnant breeding-age primate females at approximately monthly intervals and that is considered to represent a readjustment of the uterus to the nonpregnant state following proliferative changes accompanying the preceding ovulation ; also : period 6c

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