menstruation

1. 1.

   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”

   “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”

   Synonymsmensesmenstruumcatameniaperiodflow

   Broaderdischarge

   Narrowermenorrhagiaoligomenorrhea

Other forms of menstruation

plural

menstruations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about menstruation

What does menstruation mean?

menstruation means "the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause".

How many syllables are in menstruation?

menstruation has 4 syllables: men-stru-a-tion. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /ˌmɛnstɹuˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for menstruation?

Close synonyms include menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is menstruation a common word?

menstruation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with menstruation?

133 words rhyme with menstruation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.