Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Menstruation \Men`stru*a"tion\, n.
The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of
menstruating.
Source : WordNet®
menstruation
n : 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 [syn: {menses},
{menstruum}, {catamenia}, {period}, {flow}]