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The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.

y-four changes in ringing. Holder. Change of life, the period in the life of a woman when menstruation and the capacity for conception cease, usually occurring between forty-five and fifty years of age. -- Change ringing, the continual production, without repetition, of changes on bells, See def. 9. above. -- Change…

Difficult and painful menstruation.

The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See Change of life, under Change.

Profuse menstruation.

ovary, and the discharge of the same. In the mammalian female the discharge occurs during menstruation.

Fertilization of two ova, at the same menstruation, by two different acts of coition.

e offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation. In then became a superfetation upon, and not an ingredient in, the national character. Coleridge.

Specifically, ill from menstruation; affected with, or having, catamenial; menstruant.

al action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation.