menstrual cycle
- noun
- /ˈmɛnstrʊəl ˈsaɪkəl/
- Specialized
- Understanding the menstrual cycle is important for women's health and reproductive education.
- phase of the menstrual cycle
- normal menstrual cycles
- variations during the menstrual cycle
But our hormones vary a lot when we have menstrual cycles.
- But our hormones vary a lot when we have menstrual cycles.
- So you in theory for a girl, she would start her first menstrual cycle when she goes through puberty.
- There's a lot of boundaries and restrictions around menstrual cycle for, for Orthodox women.
- We also know that in women, sleep disruption can usually lead to menstrual cycle disruption.
- You should be aware of your menstrual cycles.
- If she has a menstrual cycle, we should look at it from a monthly standpoint.
- So menopause is basically meaning the pausing of your menstrual cycle.
- Sorry, a New Zealand government grant to use machine learning to predict the menstrual cycles of cows.
- And then they're on a low carbohydrate or full ketogenic diet, but their menstrual cycles cease.
- And this is partly in order to ensure that you don't have a menstrual cycle while you're lactating, right?
- So a woman goes through puberty, she gets her menstrual cycle, and then what happens when somebody gets pregnant?
- Because she's the last week of a woman's menstrual cycle, Especially people who have this brain type tend to be more irritable.
- And every time she's mentioned, we are also told that for some bizarre reason she is experiencing her first menstrual cycle.
- Now, that has consequences because hormonal fluctuations for women occur on a monthly basis for as long as you have a menstrual cycle.
- Menopause just means, well, meno is the menstrual cycle pauses stop.
Examples
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My menstrual cycle started today.
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What was the date of first day of your last normal menstrual cycle?
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Let me ask you, when was your last menstrual cycle?
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You want her to stop having a menstrual cycle?
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And keep clean during your menstrual cycle.
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My menstrual cycle started back up again.
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Every month, women have a menstrual cycle and they bleed.
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If she has a menstrual cycle, we should look at it from a monthly standpoint.
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Some women get migraines in sync with their menstrual cycle.
Academic text (2010) -
Is it true that when women live or work closely with each other, their menstrual cycles synchronize?
Synonyms
A monthly period of bleeding in women
How Regular
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'menstrual' (relating to the monthly menstruation) plus 'cycle' (a repeating sequence), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the monthly biological sequence. This adjective+noun composition is cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish 'ciclo menstrual') and follows a standard semantic pattern, making it transparent to B1 learners who know the constituents.
Etymology
The term menstrual cycle comes from old words where menstrual meant 'month' and cycle meant 'circle'. It describes the monthly changes, including bleeding, that prepare the body for a possible pregnancy, so the name explains the repeating monthly process.