premenstrual syndrome

1. 1.

   a syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation

   SynonymsPMS

   Broadersyndrome

Questions about premenstrual syndrome

What does premenstrual syndrome mean?

premenstrual syndrome means "a syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation".

What is another word for premenstrual syndrome?

Close synonyms include PMS. 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 premenstrual syndrome a common word?

premenstrual syndrome is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.