menses
- noun
- /ˈmɛnsiːz/
- Specialized
- It's important for young women to understand what changes occur during their menses.
So it's not having your menses and it's not being able to have necessarily sperm inside your semen.
- So it's not having your menses and it's not being able to have necessarily sperm inside your semen.
Examples
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So just briefly, the blood loss that typically occurs with menses is not massive.
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Okay, let's see your partner has menses, can you smell it?
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Girls look adult and they have menses before they are fertile and they can engage in adult roles without becoming pregnant.
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Those cherry angiomas are really common if you have too much estrogen and if you have tender breasts and heavy menses, that's too much estrogen.
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Menses typically occur every month in women from puberty until menses.
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During her menses, she often experiences cramps and mood swings.
Synonyms
Monthly bleeding from the womb in women between puberty and menopause
The monthly loss of blood from a woman's body during her period
Monthly bleeding from the womb that happens in women after puberty
The time when a woman has her monthly period
Blood and tissue that comes out of the vagina during a period
Blood that comes from inside a woman's body each month during her period
The monthly bleeding a woman has from the start of puberty until menopause
Monthly flow of blood from a woman's uterus during the years when she can have children
A monthly flow of blood from a woman's womb
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Etymology
Menses comes from the Latin word mensis, which means 'month' and is the same source as the English word month and the word menstruate. So, menses means the monthly bleeding many women have.