CATAMENIA - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Meaning 1

Part of speech: Noun

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

Example: 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